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Walmart's free offer could come with a price

As tax season begins, a decision by Wal-Mart Stores Inc to offer some free and discounted tax preparation in conjunction with its check-cashing services at more than 3,000 U.S. stores is less about giving back and more about bringing in, experts cautioned.

Best Buy impresses with market share, profit view

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Best Buy Co appeared to gain market share from rivals in the United States during the key holiday season and stood by its profit outlook for the financial year despite a 1.2 percent same-store sales decline in December.
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Stores Open on Christmas Day: Holiday Shopping Hours 2011

Whether you want to send off a last-last-minute present or get a jump on your post-holiday shopping, here is a complete rundown of what stores are open Christmas Day, Dec. 25. Is Walmart open on Christmas? Can you pick up a prescription at Walgreens Pharmacy? What about stores open on Christmas Eve, like Target and Kmart? Find out here.
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Walmart Could Harm Harlem Businesses

A new study finds that an opening a Walmart in Harlem could potentially hurt local businesses, forcing dozens of grocery stores and fresh food markets to close.
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Best Buy's profits squeezed by discounts

Best Buy Co's quarterly profit missed Wall Street estimates as bigger discounts during the key holiday selling season ate into profits at the world's largest electronics chain.
A customer holds an armload of electronics as he waits to check out at a Best Buy store in Pineville, North Carolina

Best Buy's Quarterly Profit Squeezed by Discounts

Best Buy Co's quarterly profit missed Wall Street estimates as bigger discounts during the holiday season squeezed margins at the world's largest electronics chain, and its shares fell 9 percent in premarket trading on Tuesday.
Shoppers stand outside of a Target store at midnight on "Black Friday" as they wait for those who stood in line to enter the store first in Torrington

Competition to cut food inflation in Canada: report

Target Corp's impending arrival in Canada, paired with Wal-Mart Stores Inc's expanding grocery business in the country, will help slow food inflation next year and keep established grocers under pressure, researchers said on Monday.
Driver delivers two packages from Amazon.com in Boston, Massachusetts

Amazon to Have Low Margins Through 2012: Analyst

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) whose Kindle Fire tablet is one of the hot-selling products in this holiday season may have a tough time in convincing investors over its margins.
Shopping carts are seen outside a new Walmart Express store in Chicago

Wal-Mart in India Deal is Off: PM Manmohan Singh Backs Off Foreign Retailers Plan

India has retracted its plan to allow foreign retail chains like Wal-Mart and Britain's Tesco to open in the country, according to multiple reports. The reversal comes less than two weeks after the global business sector and the Indian government heaped praise on the original deal to let foreign retailers into India to jolt the country's economy and lower prices for farmers and consumers.
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Coke Says Child's Death in China Not Linked to Product

Coca-Cola Co. defended on Friday the safety of its yogurt drinks sold in northern China, denying there was any link to the death of a child or the illness of three other people who had consumed the drinks, but said it removed the product from shelves in a precautionary move.

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