Chris Skinner

MAY 18, 2017

Can Wal-Mart’s Expensive New E-Commerce Operation Compete With Amazon? In the video, Lore presents a plan to bet Wal-Mart’s future not on e-commerce standbys such as books, electronics, and toys, but on product areas only now becoming popular online, including apparel, fresh food, and “everyday essentials” like drugstore items.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2020

Walmart is selling two of its online brands in a continuing goal to concentrate on its website. 27) that the Arkansas-based retail giant is scrapping Shoes.com and Bare Necessities, the intimate apparel brand. operation in Culver City, California. “We Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The solution, to be first distributed to clients of KPMG Israel’s operations, is designed to combat supplier payments fraud from a range of sources, including cyberattacks, internal fraud, social engineering and data manipulation. million was defrauded from lenders by an Arkansas man in a rare case of small business loan fraud.

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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. The new HQ will take five to seven years to complete.

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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., which offers crowdsourced on-demand delivery in Chile and Mexico. Global eCommerce Transformations.

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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. What that means is that we can flex into space normally used for second-half peak demand, despite the strong operating leverage in Q2.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Any vehicles sold online, including through www.carmax.com or the CarMax mobile app, must also clearly and conspicuously disclose on the first page of the overall description of the vehicle or vehicle history report that the vehicle may be subject to an open recall for safety issues that have not been repaired.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

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. Jet.com continues to operate as a separate website from Walmart.com. Go further back to recall the $3.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

At the 2016 Bloomberg Technology Conference, the robotics company’s Founder and CEO Wendy Roberts said that these next-generation carts are a new opportunity for robotics companies as the brick-and-mortar space undergoes transformation to provide the ease online eCommerce players like Amazon provide.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

The move enables the retailer to get items to online customers right away instead of waiting for their purchases to be delivered to their home. percent growth in online sales last year, and that its online business now makes up almost 7 percent of its overall business. to begin installing locker systems in their buildings.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A report earlier this week from The Intercept detailed how prison operators in New York, Texas, Arizona, Florida and Arkansas are using — or want to use — voice prints from inmates (and, apparently, not always with the full knowledge of those prisoners). Voice-Print Efforts. That was the case last year in the U.S,

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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.” Walmart continues to forecast fairly robust online sales growth for 2019, though at a somewhat less impressive rate than expected for the current calendar 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. The retailer also offers free store pickup of online grocery orders.).

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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

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. First on the list is apparently getting the cooperative deal it’s worked out with Target in other U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

But while the big show is revving up, the race to bring more consumers into the fold is always running, and this week both Amazon and Walmart had some big moves in beefing up (or in Amazon’s case, creating) their in-store pickup operations. Big Play of the Week: SNAP Comes To All Online Grocery Pickup. So where were the highlights?

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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. All of those things are precisely what Sam Walton staked the Walmart brand on 56 years ago when he opened the first store in Bentonville, Arkansas. For Walmart, landing the spot of No.

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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. Customers will also be able to use the service online at Walmart.com.

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PYMNTS

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. The federal minimum wage is lagging behind,” McMillon said at Walmart’s annual shareholders meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas on Wednesday (June 5).

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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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CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

Consumer channels: online vs in-store. Bridging online and offline retail. E-commerce giants Amazon and Alibaba are may use big data and AI to implement end-to-end solutions that focus on the overall retail experience (both online and offline). Operations are scheduled to begin in 2018. Supply chain & logistics.

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