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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Doug McMillon started his presentation for Walmart’s annual investor meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas by saying he wanted to “challenge your thinking about Walmart.” Walmart continues to forecast fairly robust online sales growth for 2019, though at a somewhat less impressive rate than expected for the current calendar year.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

percent of grocery shoppers are ordering groceries online to be delivered at home more now than they did before the pandemic began, while 21 percent are ordering grocery for curbside pickup more than before, and 11.9 percent are ordering groceries online to be picked up in-store more than they did before. Our research shows 22.7

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MAY 18, 2017

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. Even more astonishing, Lore and his management team in Hoboken, N.J.,

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JULY 31, 2020

Online grocery sales tripled. 40/29 TV News in Arkansas said it obtained a letter sent to an employee stating that their job would be permanently eliminated. ” According to Bloomberg, the move is part of a streamlining effort to consolidate Walmart’s brick-and-mortar and online divisions. Operating income increased to $5.8

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Amazon and eBay, rivals in online commerce for the last 20 years or so, will now be heading to court to face off. The previous case had only noted that only a few Amazon employees had reached out; the involvement of managers in this case appears to be new. Scuffle of the Week: Amazon and eBay Head to Court.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

The clock is ticking — holiday shipping deadlines are approaching and the last of the holiday shopping procrastinators are either rushing to order online or resigning themselves to a last-minute trip to a crowded mall or shopping center to tough it out in line with all the other procrastinators. Surprise of the Week: The Bad Santa Sweater .

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JUNE 7, 2019

This week was one of the latter, as Walmart hosted its investor meeting in Arkansas and Amazon decided this week’s menu of technological innovations in retail would be an all-you-can-eat buffet. the tool combines an AI-driven dialog manager with an advanced dialog simulation engine that automatically generates synthetic training data.

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