Chris Skinner

MAY 18, 2017

Can Wal-Mart’s Expensive New E-Commerce Operation Compete With Amazon? A recent acquisition spree including Jet.com gives the retail giant much-needed digital chops by Brad Stone and Matthew Boyle from Bloomberg Business Week Last summer, Marc Lore, founder and chief executive officer of e-commerce startup Jet.com Inc.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Far from its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart is seeking to deliver stronger omnichannel offerings internationally. The retailer recently announced that it was acquiring online marketplace Cornershop Inc., Through the service, consumers can order goods from pharmacies, supermarkets and specialty food retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

The next round of layoffs, less than 500 positions, will happen next year, as some buildings are consolidated in anticipation of the company’s new corporate headquarters, which will be located about two miles away from its current location in Northwest Arkansas. expanding benefits & offering a one-time bonus,” the retailer tweeted.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

As retailers expand their omnichannel efforts with in-store pickup, they are faced with a challenge: What is the best way to help their customers retrieve their orders from their brick-and-mortar stores? percent growth in online sales last year, and that its online business now makes up almost 7 percent of its overall business.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Walmart offers in-store pickups for online orders through 6 p.m. In a video announcement given by Judith McKenna, Walmart’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, the move is focused on giving store associates more time with their family. on Christmas Eve. It’s a reminder that shoppers need to plan ahead.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

Among those numbers: Operating cash flow increased 42 percent to $51.2 Operating income increased to $5.8 Operating income increased to $5.8 Online grocery sales tripled. As a reminder, Q2 is typically our largest volume quarter for the retail business. billion compared with $36 billion for Q2 2019.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

For at least two generations, Walmart has stood for more than just retail. The chain, born in Arkansas, has long served as a cultural, economic and even political signifier — telling others that one shopped at Walmart, or disliked its corporate policies, opened up a host of assumptions and judgements. Go further back to recall the $3.3

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. Those efforts come as voice-assistant and voice-activated technologies — different, of course, from voice-print biometrics — are having a moment in the retail spotlight. Voice-Print Efforts.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

The retail giant is working on developing smart shopping carts that are capable of helping customers look for items on their shopping list. The Arkansas-based retailer recently announced that it was six to nine months away from using drones inside its warehouses to speed up its operation.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

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. 3 post position, displacing Apple, at roughly 4 percent of retail sales. That retailer is, of course, Amazon. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

It’s a problem that still vexes retailers: How to craft logistics so that online consumers don’t abandon you. Among the projects with the most interest is whether Target can sell more online goods by exploiting its Shipt delivery service. Competing retailers, along with the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx Corp.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

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. That can’t always be other retailers’ business model.”.

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PYMNTS

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. Grocery delivery is coming for Walmart customers in Arkansas in a way few customers have ever seen before. Scuffle of the Week: Amazon and eBay Head to Court. said in a news release.

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PYMNTS

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. said in the release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

Walmart Gets Green Light to Start Drone Delivery Near Arkansas HQ . Walmart this week got local zoning approval from the city of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, near its company headquarters, to start using the chain’s local store as a drone launch-and-delivery hub. Our goal is to continue delivering for customers across the U.S.

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JUNE 28, 2019

The Prime Day countdown clock is ticking down, and with all the media reports about what Amazon is doing to prepare (and what everyone else in retail is doing to prepare for those preparations), it might be hard to believe that there is news to be had outside of the Amazon-invented shopping holiday. So where were the highlights?

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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. That Amazon is making a major push into apparel retail is, at this point, well known to everyone. And that was just the serious stuff.

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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. sales growth, unmatched by any other retailer.

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CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

Retail is under pressure to crack the AI code. After all, corporations in every industry are scrambling to adapt and integrate artificial intelligence into their products — and retail is no exception. 15-Min Flash briefing: Can AI Save Physical retail? Using CB Insights data, we dug into the changing retail landscape.

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