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JUNE 6, 2019

. “The federal minimum wage is lagging behind,” McMillon said at Walmart’s annual shareholders meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas on Wednesday (June 5). The comments came as a surprise, and some have speculated that Walmart’s status as the nation’s largest private employer could create pressure on Congress to act.

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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.” ” “We are getting to reimagine retail and our business … expect us to test a lot and fail a lot,” he said. to $4.80, down from $4.90

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MAY 24, 2019

Alexa’s reach is long and getting longer, now integrated into 100,000 smart home devices in the market. While Amazon’s search of a new HQ location at some point became like a national edition of “The Bachelor” where only U.S. McMillon notes the retailer is progressing to serve as a “digital enterprise,” CNBC reported.

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APRIL 19, 2019

The big news of the week, the USDA’s decision to start officially moving forward with digital ordering and delivery capacity for 38 million or so Americans enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ( SNAP ), hit both retailers, as they are two-thirds of the grocery participants in the initial New York-based pilot round.

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MARCH 7, 2019

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. percent of the consumer’s total retail spend as of February 2019, compared to Amazon’s 6.4

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