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...says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a retail-consulting and investment-banking firm. In addition, Dollar Tree is well positioned to take advantage of low real estate prices. "Landlords are looking for growing retailers to fill vacant boxes," says Champine. "Dollar Tree fits." (Read "Inspired by McDonald's, Walmart Creates Its Own Dollar Menu...
...media moguls - led by Warren Buffett and including Ted Turner, George Soros, Bill Cosby, Yoko Ono and Phil Donahue - pool their massive resources to reform the U.S. With the help of a $15 billion war chest and a p.r. campaign starring a talking parrot, the group successfully unionizes Walmart, ends corporate influence on Congress, makes Warren Beatty the governor of California and legalizes industrial hemp. TIME talked to Nader about the origins of his book, its celebrity characters and the U.S.'s real-life political battles. (See 50 entertainment highlights for fall...
...August, market-research firm Mintel reported that U.S. sales of Truvia, PureVia and other stevia sweeteners - at natural and conventional retailers, excluding Walmart - would exceed $100 million this year...
...Clark's family eventually moved to a condominium in Cromwell, Conn., north of Middletown, where Clark's mother works at Walmart, according to the Times...
...That's one reason Walmart's plan to standardize a sustainability index is so important. If companies are really improving their carbon footprint - and, one hopes, the way they treat their workers - in order to improve their image and engender consumer loyalty, isn't that a net good thing? And if they are doing it exclusively to help their bottom line, so what? "I don't care whether companies change for the love of the environment or because of their financial interest," says Geoffrey Heal, a Columbia Business School professor and the author of When Principles Pay. "The most sustainable...