NEW YORK /AP Wal-Mart, the US largest private employer, launched a new scheduling system in about 650 Neighborhood Market stores that gives hourly workers more certainty about their schedules. The system was launched in late July and could be eventually rolled out to all 4,600 U.S. Wal-Mart stores, said Mark Ibbotson, Wal-Mart’s executive vice president of central operations. There …

  Bloomberg Nike Inc.’s decision to stop selling golf equipment and a possible bankruptcy filing by the Golfsmith retail chain are raising concerns that the declining popularity of the sport is taking a toll on the companies that thrive on it. Millennials, the key to the sport’s future, are shunning the expensive and time-consuming game in favor of more instantly …

  Bloomberg Agrium Inc., the largest agricultural retailer to US farmers, fell after the company cut its full-year profit forecast for a second time this year amid an agriculture slump that has dragged down prices for crop nutrients. Earnings in 2016 will be $5 to $5.30 a share, the Calgary-based company said in a statement. That compared with a May …