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Walmart Forms Company To Sell Insurance Amid Healthcare Push

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As it grows its healthcare offerings beyond low-cost clinics and technology to help patients manage their medications, Walmart has formed a new company to sell insurance policies called Walmart Insurance Services LLC. Walmart opened clinics in Springdale, Arkansas and Loganville, Georgia in June.

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Walmart Pushes Digital Innovation During Investor Day

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Doug McMillon started his presentation for Walmart’s annual investor meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas by saying he wanted to “challenge your thinking about Walmart.” On a more amusing note, Walmart also shared with investors that it has managed to save $220 million by changing its lightbulbs and floor wax. “We

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What banks can learn from Wal-Mart

Chris Skinner

Even more astonishing, Lore and his management team in Hoboken, N.J., were put in charge of Wal-Mart’s entire domestic e-commerce operation, overseeing more than 15,000 employees in Silicon Valley, Boston, Omaha, and its home office in Arkansas.

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Grocery Roundup: Walmart, Tesco Meet The New Digital Consumers

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Delivery done right meets a consumer’s needs including around delivery time — with Walmart’s partnership with HomeValet described by Ward as “one of many solutions we’re testing” to make people’s lives “more manageable.”. The pilot program will launch in the spring in Bentonville, Arkansas. Tesco’s Big End To 2020.

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Southern Bancorp is building wealth for everyone

Independent Banker

Darrin Williams, an attorney and former Arkansas state representative, wasn’t interested when Southern Bancorp, Inc. He cites findings from the Pew Charitable Trust that Americans who move out of the bottom quintile of poverty had greater savings, wealth and home equity than those who don’t manage to move up. By Judith Sears.

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Walmart Takes Customer Service Associates To School

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The Dallas Morning News reported that Walmart is set to open about 200 new academies dedicated to training department and assistant store managers in the finer points of the American consumer. The program will also help managers know how to develop and train the folks who work for them to be successful on a career path.”.

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Walmart Names Ex-Amex Exec As Chief Customer Officer

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Prior to her new role, Whiteside worked for American Express for two decades in fields such as customer engagement and relationship management. While Whiteside will be based in Jet ’s home state of New Jersey, Messing will work out of Walmart’s hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas.

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