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What banks can learn from Wal-Mart

Chris Skinner

In the video, Lore presents a plan to bet Wal-Mart’s future not on e-commerce standbys such as books, electronics, and toys, but on product areas only now becoming popular online, including apparel, fresh food, and “everyday essentials” like drugstore items. “AMAZON IS DOMINATING” reads a slide on a large screen behind him.

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Why Google Ditched Perishables

PYMNTS

In addition to adding the service to those seven markets, Google will also be enhancing services currently on offer in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Michigan, Wyoming, Iowa, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and Ohio. First on the list is apparently getting the cooperative deal it’s worked out with Target in other U.S.

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The Walmart/Amazon Whole Paycheck Matchup

PYMNTS

who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. All of those things are precisely what Sam Walton staked the Walmart brand on 56 years ago when he opened the first store in Bentonville, Arkansas. Source: PYMNTS.com.

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