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Blue Sky Retail, LLC. – Specializing in Retail Link, administrative compliance, and sales support for Walmart and Sam’s Club vendors

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Blue Sky Retail, LLC. – Specializing in Retail Link, administrative compliance, and sales support for Walmart and Sam’s Club vendors

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The vast warehouse landscape that is Costco knows how suck you in and how to maximize the amount of goods you purchase on each visit.

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“U.S. inventory growth at Wal-Mart outstripped sales gains in the second quarter at a faster rate than at the retailer’s biggest rivals. Merchandise has been piling up because consumers have been spending less freely than Wal-Mart projected, and the company has forfeited some sales because it doesn’t have enough workers in stores to keep shelves adequately stocked.”

Blue Sky Retail, LLC. – Specializing in Retail Link, administrative compliance, and sales support for Walmart and Sam’s Club vendors

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Home Furnishings News has reported that Walmart said it would open about 219 U.S. locations, including Walmart stores, Sam’s Clubs and its new smaller-format Neighborhood Markets in fiscal year 2013, the company told attendees at its annual conference for the investment community earlier this week.  At the same time, the retailer said its planned capital expenditures for the next fiscal year would be flat to slightly down from fiscal 2012, totaling in the range of $12.6 billion to $13.5 billion. Looking further beyond, Walmart’s projection calls for a further deceleration in capital spending in 2014, to between $12 billion and $13 billion.

Rising expenses slimmed Target’s fourth-quarter net income by 5.2 percent to $981 million, bringing the mass merchant’s fiscal year to a close with $2.9 billion in net income, about flat with last year’s bottom line.

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Sears Holdings reported a net loss of $2.4 billion for the fourth quarter and $3.1 billion for the fiscal year ending on Jan. 28.

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Wal-Mart reported mixed Q3 results with an 8% increase in its net revenues over the same quarter last year. This was due to an increase of 1.3% and 5.7% in comparable sales in the U.S. and Sam’s Club segment respectively.  Profits witnessed a decline of 3% over the same period, however, and missed analyst estimates.

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