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AUGUST 27, 2020

27) that the Arkansas-based retail giant is scrapping Shoes.com and Bare Necessities, the intimate apparel brand. Earlier this month, the mega retailer shared clues about its launch of Walmart+ , which is expected to compete with Amazon Prime. Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. operation in Culver City, California.

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MAY 13, 2020

In a few weeks, the world’s largest retailer will phase out its standalone grocery app. In a Q&A sent to customers , the Arkansas-based chain explained that the grocery app is not going away – it’s simply being integrated with Walmart’s original app. Walmart said customers told the retailer they want simplicity. The reason?

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JUNE 20, 2019

Walmart spokeswoman Molly Blakeman told CNBC the retailer is working with partner Gatik , a self-driving vehicle startup, to test out a self-driving vehicle that will travel the two-mile route in Bentonville, Arkansas between two stores. “We This fills a big gap in the market.”. Earlier this month, Walmart’s U.S.

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JULY 23, 2020

There are already four such clinics, with three in Georgia and one in Arkansas. But Walmart is looking to open more, CNBC reported, as it attempts to get into the health market. James Gardner, a Boston-based retail healthcare consultant, told CNBC opening clinics in different places will let Walmart test its success.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2017

Retailing giant Walmart is expanding the use of its Scan & Go mobile app, which is already being tested in around 12 stores in Arkansas, Florida, Texas and Georgia, to include ten more brick-and-mortar locations. These are diverse markets to test new ideas.

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JUNE 25, 2019

On Tuesday (June 25), the retailer announced it was expanding the program to all of its more than 2,500 pickup locations. The retailer aims to eventually expand the SNAP option to more than 3,100 stores by the end of 2019. Amazon, Dash’s Market, Safeway and others also participated. Walmart started testing the program in 2017.

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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). It could also take some pressure off of Walmart from labor rights groups, who have long been calling on the retailer to raise its in-house minimum wage from $11 an hour.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

In what has become a high-stakes game of cat and mouse for the retail industry, Amazon and Walmart are jousting to the end in an effort to win holiday shoppers’ last-minute orders and still get them delivered by Christmas. Second, it is equipping more Whole Foods Market stores to accept box-free, label-free returns.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

As competition makes it challenging for retailers to retain customers, Walmart has created a new position of chief customer officer, which will be responsible for its in-store and eCommerce offerings. While Whiteside will be based in Jet ’s home state of New Jersey, Messing will work out of Walmart’s hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Bloomberg reported news that between 400 and 500 jobs were cut this week in marketing, human resources, merchandising, real estate and other departments. expanding benefits & offering a one-time bonus,” the retailer tweeted. Walmart will be laying off as many as 1,000 employees at its headquarters this year and in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Walmart is raising the bar on product delivery after two years of study on how goods flow from suppliers and retail distribution centers onto store shelves. According to an article published by Arkansas Online , findings unveiled that a four-day delivery window was actually 10 days long.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

To get more millennials on board, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer is rolling out offerings designed to attract younger, well-to-do consumes in urban areas. That service option ups the ante for speed and flexibility through Jet.com, as the retailer previously had a relatively early 9 a.m. cutoff for same-day deliveries.

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JULY 31, 2019

Natalie Bartholomew is chief administrative officer at Grand Savings Bank in northwestern Arkansas, but she is probably better known for her popular blog "The Girl Banker," which provides advice on career advancement and work-life balance for women in banking as well as spotlighting female leaders in financial services.

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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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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 30, 2018

Now the benefits list is expanding, as customers in 12 additional states (and at all Whole Foods Market 365 stores) will now be able to use their Prime membership to access more deals.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

According to a report in USA Today in August, the service was available in Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia; Knoxville, Memphis, and Nashville, Tennessee; Little Rock, Arkansas, as well as other cities and regions. The goal is to have the service in 120 metropolitan markets by October, which will cover 1,600 stores.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Unfortunately, at the time, that partnership failed for Walmart in terms of grabbing market share. JD.com seems to have more promise for Walmart, as JD holds 23 percent of the market. Walmart has had an online presence in China since 2011 after buying part of the Yihaodian supermarket business.

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MAY 30, 2018

It’s a problem that still vexes retailers: How to craft logistics so that online consumers don’t abandon you. Without offering hard numbers, Cornell said that Shipt is “expanding rapidly,” with the service already in half of Target’s locations — accounting for some 70 markets — by the end of Q1. Competing retailers, along with the U.S.

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MAY 2, 2016

After several years spent trying to infuse its multi-billion dollar business with more forward-thinking concepts with mixed results , last week, the retail giant announced that it will be conducting what amounts to an open call for tech innovation. But with the retail technology space heating up, Walmart doesn’t want to be left in the dust.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It was less than a year ago — February, to be precise — that Google appeared as the latest player in an increasingly crowded food delivery market that was intent to make a move on grocery. markets up and into effect in Target’s home market of Minneapolis. That can’t always be other retailers’ business model.”.

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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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MARCH 20, 2018

But he realized that there was something lacking in small markets like his at the time — big food delivery players such as Grubhub. Then he moved to another smaller market — Lake Charles, Louisiana — and realized there was a potential for food delivery outside big cities. In all, he identified 422 cities as potential markets.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

retail locations as it moves to try and close the pricing gap with rival grocery peddlers (like Kroger) and discounters (like Aldi). Walmart is launching a new price-comparison test in about 1,200 of its U.S. The move is widely expected to put pressure on packaged good suppliers.

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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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MAY 11, 2018

The expansions include modifications to plants and a new line in its Jonesboro, Arkansas, factory. Will it be enough to win back customers, or will Nestlé’s competitors hold onto the market share they gained? Reuters reports that Nestlé is now increasing capacity across multiple U.S. Where Nestlé Fell Short.

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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. This fills a big gap in the market.”.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Grocery delivery is coming for Walmart customers in Arkansas in a way few customers have ever seen before. The pilot is made possible by the state’s new autonomous vehicle law which made it possible for the Arkansas Highway Commissioner to give Gatika license to launch a commercial service with Walmart.

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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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JUNE 23, 2017

In an interview, Karen Webster discussed the pros and cons with Hyperwallet ’s Michael Ting, SVP of digital markets, and Simran Singh, director of strategy and business development. The current trials taking place at locations in New Jersey and Arkansas will shed some light on the program’s potential — or lack thereof.

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APRIL 26, 2017

The reality is that given Walmart’s size, scope and influence on the market, Ward thinks that the broader savings are likely larger. It is interesting actually, looking over the last three years, we did disrupt the market and in a very good way for the consumer. She said that when Walmart lowered its prices, so did many others. “It

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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. cities could compete, Walmart’s construction of a new HQ in Bentonville Arkansas has been a comparatively quiet affair. McMillon notes the retailer is progressing to serve as a “digital enterprise,” CNBC reported.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

In Arkansas, Jim S. Retail outlets: 11. Once he gets his mind set, a plan forms and then becomes a very calculated reality,” offers Tara Salinas, the bank’s marketing and business development officer. One person cannot do it all—there’s just way, way, way too much to do.” —Jim Jim Gowen, Merchants & Planters Bank.

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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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MAY 15, 2017

Lee Watson, CEO of the Arkansas-based Venture Center, added “together we provide fintech startups with proven go-to-market training, C-suite level mentorship and access to top financial institutions.” Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alpharank demonstrated its data-as-a-service technology at FinovateSpring 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

But he held firm that the regulatory environment, changing customer preferences, and the pace and expense of technology were driving the market towards bigger is better. Last post was dedicated to the #4 Bank, Bank of the Ozarks of Little Rock, Arkansas (see post here ). They had to grow to survive. I challenged the thinking.

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