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Walmart Divests Of Shoes.com, Bare Necessities Brands As Part Of Digital Streamlining

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Walmart is selling two of its online brands in a continuing goal to concentrate on its website. 27) that the Arkansas-based retail giant is scrapping Shoes.com and Bare Necessities, the intimate apparel brand. Also last year, Walmart shuttered its Jet.com eCommerce website and phased out the brand.

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Walmart Names Ex-Amex Exec As Chief Customer Officer

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Whiteside “will play a critical role looking after our brand and thinking through the customer journey – from acquiring new customers to [improving] their shopping experience and resolving any issues they may have,” according to a memo from Walmart. Those robot deployments are slated to happen next year.

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Amazon Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: New Ventures And Expanding Priorities 

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The goal of the service is to streamline the consumer shopping journey — and winnow thousands of possible clothing options and brands into a curated list of likely favorite based on the shopper’s previous habits. Grocery delivery is coming for Walmart customers in Arkansas in a way few customers have ever seen before.

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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. The brand was built on keeping prices low, and stocking shelves with a variety of merchandise categories that would keep consumers coming back week after week.

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The Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: The Delivery Edition 

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Walmart is signing on to a recent trend and has announced it will be partnering with autonomous vehicle company Nuro to launch a new pilot program to test autonomous grocery delivery in the Houston market. The service carries products only; there are no onboard drivers or passengers. said in the release.

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The Amazon Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Powering Up In-Store Pickup

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But while the big show is revving up, the race to bring more consumers into the fold is always running, and this week both Amazon and Walmart had some big moves in beefing up (or in Amazon’s case, creating) their in-store pickup operations. So where were the highlights? In-Store Move: Amazon Joins Forces with Rite Aid.

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The Whole Paycheck Tracker: Walmart vs. Amazon

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There is a possibly apocryphal story of Amazon’s early days (around 2001) where Founder Jeff Bezos was invited to Bentonville, Arkansas to discuss the possibility of Walmart purchasing his still young – and, at this point, struggling – online bookstore. Walmart’s share has remained relatively flat over the last four years. percent today.

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