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Wal-Mart's same-store sales crept up in recent months, reversing last year's losses and trumping expectations, prompting the world's largest retailer to provide a sunny forecast for the holidays.

Fed up with banks, many consumers now use Wal-Mart to cash their paychecks, pay bills or buy a prepaid debit card — all at significantly lower costs.

The nation's biggest retailer unveils a five-year plan to put healthier packaged foods and more fresh produce on its shelves.

That could mean big changes for growers, food manufacturers and consumers.

In the next 25 years, analysts believe the consumer market in Africa will take off. When it does, Walmart wants to be ready to seize the day.

More unemployed people are searching for jobs, Wal-Mart provides employees with tuition reductions and credits from work, and other consumer-focused items from Friday's Times.

Big box retailers like Wal-Mart and Home Depot posted fantastic earnings for this past quarter, but those commercial giants aren't too optimistic about the future.

Marketplace's Bob Moon reports.

The discount retailer, one of the recession's big winners, felt the pinch from belt-tightening consumers in its fourth quarter as sales at US stores fell for the first time.

Focusing on out-of-favor Dow Jones stocks hasn't worked so well recently, but a 2010 list that includes Chevron, Wal-Mart, McDonald's and Kraft looks promising.

Got a gift card from Wal-Mart, Best Buy or American Express this holiday season?

The discount-store chain is leveraging its brick-and-mortar operations as it takes aim at Amazon in the battle for online shoppers -- and says the strategy is working.