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Wal-Mart HQ Cuts Continue
Wal-Mart Stores has laid off between 1 and 3 percent of its information services staff following a tech division reorganization. The information services unit,...
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Walmart Family Mobile adds a 10GB data plan and now has its own Binge On-like feature
The service has added its own version of Binge On, enabling users to view video at DVD quality (480p), or three times as much streamed video...
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Walmart Store Closings Causing Customers Pain: NBC News
Walmart’s planned closure of nearly 154 stores this week is leaving many customers high and dry. According to an NBC News report, the discount...
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Wal-Mart Closing 154 U.S. Stores
Wal-Mart is closing 269 of its least productive stores worldwide, including 154 locations in the U.S. The U.S. contingent include the discounter’s entire 102-store...
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Walmart Enters The Mobile Payment Ring
Walmart has become the latest addition to the increasingly crowded mobile payment marketplace. Just in time for Christmas, the world’s largest retailer today unveiled...
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Wireless, TV Weigh On Walmart’s Tech Biz
The heads of Walmart and sister chain Sam’s Club cited TV and wireless as drags on their CE businesses last quarter. On a pre-recorded...
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TVs Top Walmart’s Black Friday Sale
Updated! The other shoe — and most impactful Black Friday ad — has dropped. Three days after Best Buy revealed its Thanksgiving weekend plans, No....
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Black Friday Watch: Walmart.com Launching Deals Of The Day
Walmart has a target on Amazon. In another element of its billion-dollar-a-year catch-up effort, the world’s largest retailer is mounting its own version of...
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Walmart Launching Its Own Version of Amazon Dash
Walmart is looking to give Amazon’s push-button Dash reordering system a run for its money with a similar new grocery program it developed with...
Keeping Current
Walmart’s Secret In-Store Weapon
In its battle for holiday market share, Walmart is employing the one thing (person?) Amazon can’t: Santa Claus. The world’s largest retailer is planning...
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Drone Wars: Walmart Has Amazon In Its Sights
Petitions FCC For Flight Testing Walmart’s efforts to catch up with Amazon have extended to drones. The world’s largest retailer by sales volume, if...
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Walmart Launching Holiday Assault On Sunday
Walmart will begin a two-month-long holiday blitz this Sunday that includes the first wave of seasonal discounts and a new in-store pick-up feature for...
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Walmart Exec Foresees Holiday ‘Anarchy’ From Credit Card Conversion
This month’s mandated switch to new chip-embedded credit cards is bound to cause chaos this holiday season, a Walmart executive has warned. Speaking at...
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Walmart Honors Back To The Future Day With Bacon 3D Printer
Great Scott! Yes, it’s Back to the Future Day, and some are trying to get into the spirit to honor the 30th anniversary of...
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Holiday 2015: 47% Of Shoppers Think Stores Should Close Thanksgiving; Most To Make Walmart 1st Black Friday Stop
A clear majority of consumers believe stores should remain closed on Thanksgiving Day according to a just-completed holiday poll, reflecting a backlash from some quarters. The...
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Bratspies, Furner Named Top Merchants In Walmart-Sam’s Club Shake-Up
Walmart U.S. appointed former hardlines and grocery head Steve Bratspies chief merchandising officer in a corporate shuffle that also trimmed 450 headquarters jobs. Reporting...
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Amazon, Walmart Salute Emmys With 67th Anniversary Sale
Two of the world’s largest retailers are saluting last Sunday’s 67th Primetime Emmy Awards Show today with a pair of promotions that pin prices...
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Walmart Vendors Mad As Hell…
Doing business with Walmart has always been tough, as the discounter relentlessly drove out costs in pursuit of its low-price customer promise. But the...
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How To Maintain Healthy Margins In A Cutthroat Category
Promotions have always played an important role in retailing strategy. Whether to clear the shelves of last year’s models (or slow-moving inventory in general)...
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Walmart CE Sales Still Sluggish
Walmart and sister chain Sam’s Club said their CE sales remain stuck in the mud, due in part to mobile carriers’ new phone-leasing plans....
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Walmart 1st To Carry Smart Car Seat
Bentonville, Ark. — Walmart will begin carrying what’s being heralded as the first smart car seat. The Evenflo Advanced SensorSafe Embrace DLX car seat...
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The Times They Are A-Changin.’ Finally.
A confluence of key retail events this month – the annual ProSource Spring Meeting in San Antonio and Walmart’s shareholders’ gathering in Arkansas –...
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Walmart Takes Another Stab At CE
Exclusive! Rogers, Ark. — Walmart, the No. 2 CE retailer, is putting fresh fixes and a new management team behind its entertainment business, which...
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Walmart, Sam’s CE Disrupted By Port Delays
Bentonville, Ark. – Walmart and sister chain Sam’s Club reported soft CE sales last quarter, due in part to delayed West Coast port shipments....
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Vizio Rolls Out Smart Ultra HD TV Line
IRVINE, CALIF. — Vizio has introduced its second Ultra HD TV lineup with nine new LED models, all with smart-TV capabilities. The new M-series...
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Walmart’s CE Holiday Sales Slip
Bentonville, Ark. — CE sales slumped for Walmart and sister chain Sam’s Club during the company’s fiscal fourth quarter, which included the critical holiday...
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Virgin, Walmart Team On First Prepaid Data-Sharing Plans
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint prepaid brand Virgin Mobile plans Jan. 17 availability of the industry’s first data-sharing prepaid plans, which will be available...
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Walmart Shakes Up Merchant Ranks: Report
BENTONVILLE, ARK. — Walmart’s top merchant has suddenly left the company and the executive responsible for merchandising CE, entertainment, toys and other hardlines has...
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Walmart Matching Black Friday Prices This Week
North Bergen, N.J. — Walmart is looking to trump its competitors and win Black Friday with a pre-Thanksgiving sales event that begins this week....
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Walmart Adding Connected-Home Displays
Updated! Bentonville, Ark. — Walmart is the latest, and largest, mass merchant to present a curated selection of home-automation products in its stores. Beginning...
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Walmart Kicks Off CE-Centric Holiday Season
Bentonville, Ark. — With Halloween nearing conclusion, Walmart is ready and waiting to flip the switch on its holiday-season program. By tomorrow, all of...
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Walmart Selling Pre-Owned Games
Bentonville, Ark. — Walmart is making good on its promise to add pre-owned titles to its video game assortment. Beginning Nov. 3, the retailer...
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Cricket Brings New Offerings To Walmart
Atlanta, Ga. – AT&T prepaid subsidiary Cricket Wireless brought its newest plans and phones to almost 1,000 Walmart stores as part of its rebuilding...
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Walmart Expanding E-Commerce Infrastructure
SAN BRUNO, CALIF. — Walmart is adding two more fulfillment centers to support its online operations. The 1.2 million-square-foot facilities will open next year...
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GreatCall Calls On Rite Aid
San Diego – MVNO GreatCall, which targets the elderly and growing baby-boomer populations, is expanding its distribution to more than 4,000 Rite Aid pharmacies....
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Straight Talk Adding More Alcatel OneTouch Phones
Irvine, Calif. – Alcatel OneTouch is expanding its smartphone selection through prepaid-MVNO TracFone and TracFone’s Straight Talk brand, which is available exclusively in Walmart....
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Walmart Hikes Holiday Hires
Bentonville, Ark. – Walmart plans to hire 10 percent more temporary workers for the holiday season, suggesting expectations for a more robust fourth quarter....
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E Fun Updates Walmart Tablets
West Covina, Calif. — E Fun officially announced the Nextbook 7 earlier this month, the company’s latest quad-core Android 4.4 tablet sold exclusively through...
Financial
Walmart Reports Weak CE Comps In Q2
Bentonville, Ark. — Walmart and sister chain Sam’s Club reported weak CE comp sales for the second quarter, ended July 31, but cited renewed...
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Walmart Cuts Prices For Back-To-School, Launches Price-Match Tool
Bentonville, Ark. — Walmart announced a series of back-to-school promotions on more 400 in-store and online items, and formally debuted an online Savings Catcher...
Blogs
Changing Of The Guard At Walmart U.S.
News of Bill Simon’s departure as president/CEO of Walmart’s core U.S. business, just weeks after pressing the flesh at the company’s annual shareholders meeting,...
Industry
Foran Named Walmart U.S. CEO/President
Bentonville, Ark. — Walmart reported today that Greg Foran has been promoted to president and CEO of Walmart U.S., succeeding Bill Simon. Simon has...