Topic: Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Analysis: Best Buy previews other retailers' margin hits

(Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc is the first of many retailers that will report falling margins as merchants reluctantly cling to steep discounts to draw consumers in this holiday season.On Tuesday, electronics retailer Best Buy saw its shares fall more than ...

Woman accused of pepper-spraying shoppers surrenders

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A woman suspected of dousing fellow Walmart shoppers with pepper spray during a Black Friday eve bargain frenzy in suburban Los Angeles has turned herself in to authorities, police said on Saturday.The woman, who was not publicly identified, ...

Violence, pepper spray mar Black Friday shopping

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Black Friday turned into a black mark against American shoppers as riotous crowds brawled over video games, waffle irons and towels, drawing international condemnation and even raising questions about the state of humanity.One of the most outrageous incidents ...

Violence, pepper spray mars Black Friday shopping

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A shopper pepper-sprayed other bargain hunters and robbers shot at customers to steal their Black Friday purchases, marring the start of the U.S. holiday shopping season, according to authorities.Up to 20 people were injured after a woman used ...

Black Friday draws crowds but spending in doubt

(Reuters) - Retailers were hoping for more shoppers like Shawn Elzia as the annual Black Friday bargain stampede marked the unofficial start of what is widely expected to be a middling holiday shopping season.The Brooklyn, New York teacher, one of hundreds of ...

Battle for Black Friday deals includes pepper spray, shootings

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The holiday shopping season got off to an ugly start with shoppers pepper-spraying one another to battle for bargains and robbers shooting shoppers to steal their Black Friday purchases, police said on Friday.In Los Angeles, authorities were reviewing ...

Crowds hit stores for "Black Friday" deals

(Reuters) - Retailers may not reap hefty gains from the longer lines of shoppers snaked around malls across the U.S. at the traditional post-Thanksgiving start of the holiday shopping season; broader bargain hunting driven by budgetary fears may depress overall holiday spending.Eager ...

Crowds hit U.S. stores for "Black Friday" deals

(Reuters) - Retailers may not reap hefty gains from the longer lines of shoppers snaked around malls across the U.S. at the traditional post-Thanksgiving start of the holiday shopping season; broader bargain hunting driven by budgetary fears may depress overall holiday spending.Eager ...

Worried shoppers greet "Black Friday" sales

(Reuters) - Bargain hunters flocked to U.S. stores late Thursday and overnight Friday, searching for deals while fretting about their own shaky economic well-being.Some stores, looking to grab as big a piece as possible of what is expected to be a middling ...

Thanksgiving kicks off fight for holiday sales

(Reuters) - The U.S. holiday shopping season was in full-swing on Thursday, with retailers hoping consumers will spend big despite worries about the fragile economy and their own precarious finances.Stores looking to grab as big a piece as possible of what is ...
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