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What banks can learn from Wal-Mart

Chris Skinner

Can Wal-Mart’s Expensive New E-Commerce Operation Compete With Amazon? 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. Even more astonishing, Lore and his management team in Hoboken, N.J.,

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Why Google Ditched Perishables

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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

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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. That curiosity was piqued by my walks to the office when I am in town (I live in Beacon Hill in Boston) and my mental counts of the number of Amazon boxes I see out on trash day.

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