If Wal-Mart can fix its image, then this could act as a future growth catalyst. But this will be very difficult to achieve, and it should have zero impact on the stock price in the near future.

To Wal-Mart, Katrina was an opportunity to try to turn around its image. Most of Wal-Mart's "smooth and efficient" disaster relief was brought to the Gulf states by truck.

Meanwhile, of course, Wal-Mart has been stocking its arsenal against the growing chorus of such loud-mouth critics who would question its angelic, altruisitc ways. A few months back it was revealed ...

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has begun reaching out to its many critics. In the weeks since the giant discount store won praise for its relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina, Wal-Mart ...

The repercussions of Wal-Mart’s bribery scandal in Mexico will likely be significant and long-lasting. But it doesn’t look like consumer perception of the mega-chain will take much of a hit ...

The parties involved expect to close the deal in the second quarter of 2018. Jim and FaEllen Yates began E-Z Mart Stores in 1970 with their first store in Nashville, Ark. "From those humble beginnings ...