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JULY 30, 2020

Walmart has reduced its workforce by laying off hundreds in its logistics, real estate and retail location planning divisions as it simplifies its business and reduces its expenses, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. Four such clinics currently exist: one in Arkansas and three in Georgia.

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JUNE 25, 2019

Walmart will now accept SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) to pay for online grocery orders at all of its pickup locations, according to a report. On Tuesday (June 25), the retailer announced it was expanding the program to all of its more than 2,500 pickup locations. Walmart started testing the program in 2017.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Retail giant Walmart is teaming up with delivery solutions startup HomeValet to launch a test pilot that would bring fresh groceries to people’s homes even if they’re not there. “If The pilot program will launch in the spring in Bentonville, Arkansas. Research showed that cleaning products were purchased online by 36.6

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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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JULY 28, 2019

People in Arkansas can now get groceries delivered via a new Walmart pilot with Gatik using self-driving cars that include a human safety driver behind the wheel. Walmart has been a pioneer in integrating the latest technology into its retail operations. Kroger and H-E-B are among other retailers testing similar technology.

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JULY 28, 2019

People in Arkansas can now get groceries delivered with a new Walmart pilot with Gatik using self-driving cars that include a human safety driver behind the wheel. Walmart has been a pioneer in integrating the latest technology into its retail operations. Kroger and H-E-B are among other retailers testing similar technology.

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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. Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. operation in Culver City, California. comparable store sales increase of 9.3

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JANUARY 14, 2021

percent of grocery shoppers are ordering groceries online to be delivered at home more now than they did before the pandemic began, while 21 percent are ordering grocery for curbside pickup more than before, and 11.9 percent are ordering groceries online to be picked up in-store more than they did before. Our research shows 22.7

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APRIL 14, 2020

set early morning hours once a week for seniors as COVID-19 took a toll on shopping habits, the world’s largest retailer is launching a daily pickup time reserved for the people who are most at-risk for the virus. When customers order online, they will see a prompt that shows the criteria for selecting the “at-risk only” timeframe.

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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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MARCH 20, 2018

FedEx is coming to Walmart in the form of internal shops that will help customers print, pack and ship out of 500 of the retailer’s locations nationwide. The tie-in will reduce some friction for both in handling the last-mile element of online sales. Retailers are looking at all the tools at their disposal,” Philips said.

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APRIL 6, 2018

To use the Pickup Towers, which are 16 feet tall and approximately 8 feet wide, customers place an order online and receive a barcode on a digital recipe. The retailer debuted the first of the giant self-service kiosks in the fall of 2016 in a Bentonville, Arkansas store.

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MAY 3, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are changing the way they manage their workforces in the age of Amazon: Walmart , for instance, is testing multiple versions of a new team structure called the “Great Workplace” in some of its locations. In terms of Walmart’s other efforts, the retailer is also focusing on features such as grocery pickup.

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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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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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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. expanding benefits & offering a one-time bonus,” the retailer tweeted.

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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. As online shopping has grown over the past decade, the demand for delivery by UPS and FedEx has followed suit.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Walmart is energizing its Jet.com engines to power the online eCommerce site that it acquired two years ago. 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. cutoff for same-day deliveries.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. Those efforts come as voice-assistant and voice-activated technologies — different, of course, from voice-print biometrics — are having a moment in the retail spotlight. Voice-Print Efforts.

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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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JULY 13, 2018

. “It is another way Walmart is offering our customers choice and convenience that save them time,” wrote Walmart spokesperson Anne Hatfield in an email to Retail Dive. The Plano fuel station is similar to stores recently opened in Crowley, Texas and Rogers, Arkansas. In May, the company revealed that its U.S.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Walmart offers in-store pickups for online orders through 6 p.m. The Arkansas-based retailer announced that shoppers could order a gift or other item on its website as late as 6 p.m. The Arkansas-based retailer announced that shoppers could order a gift or other item on its website as late as 6 p.m.

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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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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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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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DECEMBER 6, 2017

6), the big box retailer is making the switch from “Wal-Mart Stores Inc.” The first Walmart location opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. It purchased Jet.com last year as a major step toward expanding its online retail offerings and achieving those goals. Walmart is changing its name — its legal name, that is.

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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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JULY 31, 2020

Online grocery sales tripled. As a reminder, Q2 is typically our largest volume quarter for the retail business. According to Bloomberg, the retailer is also reorganizing its 4,750 U.S. 40/29 TV News in Arkansas said it obtained a letter sent to an employee stating that their job would be permanently eliminated.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Walmart has had an online presence in China since 2011 after buying part of the Yihaodian supermarket business. JD.com now controls the Yihaodian brand, website and app, while Walmart continues to handle Yihaodian’s direct sales business and sells on Yihaodian’s online marketplace. Alibaba has 58 percent, and Yihaodian has a mere 1.3

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JUNE 8, 2018

For at least two generations, Walmart has stood for more than just retail. 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.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

As Priceline Group focuses in on its hotel and home rental business, the online travel company announced it had changed its name on Wednesday (Feb. Besides Priceline, other big-name retailers have also recently changed their names. The first Walmart location opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. In 2017, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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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. 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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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. That can’t always be other retailers’ business model.”.

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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. sales growth, unmatched by any other retailer.

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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. So where were the highlights?

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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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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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