PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. New technology often starts out at the U.S. Authorities and prison technology companies say this mass biometric surveillance supports prison security and fraud prevention efforts.”.

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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

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 company’s profits are expected to drop up to 12 percent in 2016 as it spends more on paying higher wages and technology, according to Bloomberg. The company reportedly spent $10.5

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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

JUNE 3, 2016

The retail giant said it is a mere six to nine months away from deploying drones for superior management of its warehouse inventories in the United States, Reuters reported. Walmart’s announcement comes after it applied for a license to test drones for end-to-end fulfillment of online orders in October last year.

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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

JUNE 5, 2017

They say robots could replace as many as 38 percent of retail workers in the next 10 years, starting with cashiers. Looking ahead,” said President and CEO Doug McMillon , “we will compete with technology, but win with people. Not so for Walmart employees. We will be people-led and tech-empowered.”.

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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.

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PYMNTS

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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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.

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PYMNTS

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. He said the technology is a “new era in commerce. And that was just the serious stuff.

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PYMNTS

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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