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Walmart Working On 2nd Retail Skunkworks Site
Walmart is staffing a second facility that will use emerging technologies to solve commonplace problems in its retail stores.
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Walmart Previews Website Redesign
Walmart's giving a peek at what it called a glimpse of a broader website redesign.
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Sam’s Club Upping Its E-Commerce Efforts
Sam’s Club is catching the digital wave that sister chain Walmart has been riding of late.
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Walmart’s Store No. 8 Buys VR Startup Spatialand
The fruits of this partnership aren't expected to be visible for several years.
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Pricing Shootout, Round 2: Amazon Vs. Walmart
The world’s top two discounters go head-to-head.
Retail
Walmart Entering e-Book Biz Through Rakuten Alliance
Walmart is looking to blunt Amazon’s Kindle e-reader business through a new alliance with Internet conglomerate Rakuten.
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Which Retailers Won Christmas?
Now that Santa and his reindeer are safely back at their North Pole digs, it’s time to do a little holiday assessing.
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Walmart Closing The Same-Day Delivery Gap
With most brick-and-mortar retailers now fully enmeshed in e-commerce, the next great differentiator, after price, is delivery time. And Walmart, which has been on...
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Walmart To Open New HQ In Bentonville
Walmart will open new headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., in order to better streamline its operations. According to Walmart Stores president/CEO Doug McMillon, the retailer...
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Walmart Consolidating Store Operations
The moves come after a series of cost-cutting measures by the retailer. “Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is reorganizing its U.S. store operations to simplify the...
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Google, Walmart Partner On Shop-By-Voice
Your wish is their command. Beginning in late September, Walmart customers will be able to purchase hundreds of thousands of items from the discount...
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Walmart Rolling Out More Giant Order-Fulfillment Vending Machines
Walmart is expanding its massive Pickup Tower vending machines to an additional 80 locations, up from the 20 towers already installed. The towers, which...
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Walmart Vs. Amazon, Round 2
In its escalating open war against Amazon, Walmart has thrown down the gauntlet for the second time this month. After laying down the law...
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Walmart To Vendors: Hey, You, Get Off Of Amazon’s Cloud
Although it may seem as if the gloves have truly come off, the fact remains that Walmart isn’t the only retailer that requires its...
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How Walmart Is Thinking Outside The (Big) Box
In its quest to catch up with Amazon and leverage its big-box real estate, Walmart is testing a host of retail innovations that embrace...
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Will Walmart’s E-tail Acquisitions Buy It Happiness?
Beginning with its $3.3 billion buyout of Jet.com, which also brought it visionary founder Marc Lore, Walmart has been on an e-tail acquisition tear,...
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Walmart’s Tech Departments, Before And After
Last June we provided a sneak peek at Walmart’s latest electronics department reset, courtesy of our friends at Field Agent. Now, as the world’s...
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Walmart May Be Readying An Amazon Dash Competitor
Walmart has made it no secret that it won’t go gentle into Amazon’s good night, revealing last year that it would slow brick-and-mortar openings...
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Walmart Offers Discounts For Online Purchases Picked Up In Stores
Walmart will begin offering discounts on certain online-only items that customers purchase on Walmart.com and then pick up at any Walmart store. The Pickup...
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Walmart’s Vudu Service Converts DVDs/Blu-rays To Digital Via Smartphone App
Vudu, the video-streaming service owned by Walmart, now provides DVD and Blu-ray disc owners access to digital versions of their titles via their smartphones....
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Walmart Gets Its Digital Groove On
Enthused by its $3.3 billion investment in Jet, the world’s largest discount chain has created an e-commerce incubator, called Store No. 8, to develop digital start-ups...
Distributors
Walmart Awards Petra E-Commerce Supplier Of The Year
Tech accessories distributor Petra Industries announced Walmart awarded it the Supplier of the Year for E-commerce at Walmart’s inaugural two-day Supplier Growth Summit last...
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Will Walmart Win Over Amazon Customers With Free Two-Day Shipping?
You may recall Walmart’s recent online offer of free two-day shipping. The program, called simply “2-Day Shipping,” applies to more than 2 million popular...
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Walmart One-Ups Amazon With Free 2-Day Shipping
Taking aim at Amazon’s Prime program, Walmart has begun offering free shipping on more than 2 million of the discounter’s most frequently purchased items,...
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Walmart Plans Early Christmas Eve Close
Walmart may have begun its Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving, but it is closing early on Christmas Eve. The No. 1 discount chain said...
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Walmart Starting Cyber Week Sale On Black Friday
Walmart is promising the largest online assortment of Cyber Week deals in its history, and is blurring the promotional lines by kicking off the...
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Walmart Black Friday 2016 Deals Include $298 55-Inch 4K TV
Walmart formally debuted its Black Friday plans, switching things up just a bit vs. last year. The retailer will kick off its in-store Black...
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Walmart Taking A Page From Target, And Vice Versa
The Nos. 1 and 2 discount chains are borrowing from each other’s playbooks this holiday season, with Walmart focusing on service — long a...
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Walmart Launches ‘Early Bird’ Pre-Holiday Sale
With Halloween now but a candy corn hangover, Walmart is wasting no time moving on to the real holiday business at hand. In lockstep...
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Black Friday 2016 Watch: Walmart Wants To Make In-Store Checkout Easier Than Ever
Walmart was next up for a peek at its holiday playbook, which the chain said will include a $125 TCL Roku TV throughout the...
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Walmart Slowing Store Openings To Focus On Growing E-Commerce With Jet
Walmart will slow store openings in order to focus more heavily on online sales, the company revealed during its annual investors meeting last week....
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Who Has More Customers, Walmart Or McDonald’s?
Tough one, but if you picked Walmart you’d be right. According to Checkout Tracking, a data service from NPD Group, fully 95 percent of...
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Walmart To Stop Price Matching At 300 More Stores
The retailer had previous allowed consumers to receive price matches by bringing in ads from local competitors. “Back in May, Walmart announced that 500...
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Walmart Buys Jet.com
It’s official. Walmart is purchasing nascent e-tailer Jet.com for $3 billion. The world’s largest retailer said a portion of the $3 billion will be...
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Jet.com Landing At Wal-Mart?
Wal-Mart is reportedly in negotiations to buy Jet.com for an estimated $3 billion.The move would give the discount chain a much needed dot.com boost...
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Walmart Ramping Up ShippingPass, Its Partial Answer To Amazon Prime
Walmart’s test of a $49/year two-day shipping service is going wide. The pilot ShippingPass program, which launched last spring by invitation only, is now...
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A Sneak Peek At Walmart’s Latest Electronics Department Design
To students of Walmart, store No. 5260 in Rogers, Ark., holds a special place. For this isn’t just any run-of-the-mill Walmart box; store No....
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Walmart Drone Fleet Prepares For Liftoff
Walmart could begin deploying drones at its distribution centers within the next six to nine months, the company revealed. The drones will be used...
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Electronics Still ‘A Headwind’ For Walmart
Walmart still can’t seem to find the handle for its CE business. While the world’s largest retailer saw “some improving trends” in electronics at...
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Walmart Challenging Amazon With Test Of Two-Day Deliveries
Walmart, which has been offering a three-day shipping program for $50/year, is looking to close the gap with Amazon Prime by cutting deliveries by...
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T-Mobile’s Postpaid-Sales Pilot Ends At Walmart
Walmart halted a six-month pilot of T-Mobile postpaid-service sales at approximately 600 Walmart stores, Wave7 Research reported. The exit follows the scaling back of...