Wal-Mart Gets Beaten At Its Own Game In the first-round battle between Wal-Mart and Tesco on U.S. soil, the battle goes to the hoe team,… Read More

The Love/Hate Relationship With Wal-Mart In Kansas City, MO, low prices are not necessarily enough to drive consumers away from the competition and into Wal-Mart…. Read More

Wal-Mart Takes On Canadian Retailers Our Toronto results show a similar pattern of disengagement from the problem. There is a good chance Wal-Mart will be… Read More

Déjà Vu All Over Again! In March 2004, we characterized the Portland, OR, market as one of benign indifference; not much has changed. If you… Read More

Rocky Mountains’ High Prices The big three chains in Denver aren’t particularly competitive with Wal-Mart, but dig under the snow and get into the loyalty… Read More

Stand Clear! Most of Wal-Mart’s competitors seem to have agreed to get out of the supercenter’s way, but other supercenters may be willing to compete…. Read More

Another Version Of the Future? The first ever a supermarket carrying a full line of product beat out the Wal-Mart Supercenter as pricing king. With… Read More

Meet Me In St Louis Wal-Mart does its usual bulldozer when it comes to pricing against two strong independent supermarket chains. But it stumbles when… Read More

Detroit’s Window To The Future Produce pricing at A&P’s Food Basics and Meijer give compelling reasons to think there might be a way to beat… Read More

Crossing The California Rubicon If the big chains can’t make a stand here, then it seems unlikely that supermarkets will ever be able to defeat… Read More