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June 24, 2010 Bloomberg Businessweek, "Wal-Mart, Chicago Unions Can’t Agree If They Have an Agreement "
If Wal-Mart prevails, its experience may serve as a blueprint for expansion into other cities, said Leon Nicholas, a director at consulting firm Kantar Retail in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Chicago could very well be a model for how Wal-Mart expands into urban areas -- a multiformat, localized approach that leverages Wal-Mart’s growing community-relations skills to capture urban market share,” Nicholas said in a telephone interview. “Chicago opens up the opportunity for small-store urban expansion that they’ve been talking about for a while.”

June 17, 2010 Supermarket News, "Small Will Be Big: Kantar Retail "
Small stores will continue a big trend in retailing during the next few years, fueled by risks to capital and an increasing number of older consumers who prefer small to large, speakers said here Wednesday at the mid-year forum sponsored by Kantar Retail. "Wal-Mart is already operating small stores on the international level, and it's able to move across borders with good ideas," David Marcotte, director of retail insights at Kantar, said. "If Wal-Mart decides to pursue that kind of growth in the U.S., it will have strong working models to learn from."

June 4, 2010 FT.com, "Data show signs of slowdown in US spending "
Frank Badillo, senior economist at Kantar Retail, argued that the “results provide some sign that the retail recovery will persist” in spite of wealth declines and economic uncertainties.”

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