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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

For the second time in the past week, the retailer has announced a pilot program to test how well drones will pick up and deliver packages. The latest news has Walmart launching a drone delivery operation near the company’s headquarters in Northwest Arkansas.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Walmart 's partnership with insurance startup Clover Health to aid Georgia seniors marks the retail giant's foray into privately-managed Medicare Advantage plans, Bloomberg reported. Walmart has been making moves in the healthcare field for some time, including opening clinics in Georgia, Texas, South Carolina, Florida and Arkansas.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

As car buyers and sellers across the country increasingly turn to eCommerce solutions, CarStory will strengthen and extend the reach of our digital retailing platform, and together we will accelerate the transformation of the massive used auto industry,” Vroom CEO Paul Hennessy said in announcing the $120 million cash-and-stock deal.

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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 Earlier this month, Walmart’s U.S.

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APRIL 28, 2020

The properties in Texas, Indiana, Alaska, Missouri, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arkansas and Tennessee will not be limited to curbside-pickup reopening like the ones happening in Texas, the report said. Simon is also encouraging retailers to use technology, such as Apple Pay, for contactless transactions.

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JUNE 16, 2020

Walmart has purchased a health services technology company that promises to manage prescription drugs for each family member, the Arkansas-based chain announced on Monday (June 15). CNBC reported the world’s largest retailer paid about $200 million for CareZone , the Seattle-based tech start up. million members.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

The prospect of this technology is intriguing, both for customers and for Walmart’s last-mile delivery efforts.”. Walmart noted the introduction of smart boxes opens up the possibility of deliveries any day, any time, and although the retailer is not looking up to follow up on that with 24/7 service, Ward did say it has “a nice ring to it.”.

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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. Walmart started testing the program in 2017.

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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. Sam’s Club rolled out similar technology in its brick-and-mortar locations last fall, noted the report.

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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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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. New technology often starts out at the U.S. Authorities and prison technology companies say this mass biometric surveillance supports prison security and fraud prevention efforts.”.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Reuters reported that automation technology’s melt into middle-wage jobs like construction, office work, truck driving and even food prep and food service will see more and more jobs displaced by computer technology. Certain states will be heavily affected, like Indiana, Kentucky, South Dakota, Arkansas and Alabama.

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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 company’s profits are expected to drop up to 12 percent in 2016 as it spends more on paying higher wages and technology, according to Bloomberg. The company reportedly spent $10.5

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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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JUNE 20, 2016

” To amp up its sales, the retail giant is investing billions of dollars for technological superiority over its competitors. billion on information technology development, topping the list of IDC’s biggest technology spenders. In 2015, the company spent $10.5

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APRIL 29, 2020

Numerous digital technologies have entered the business realm during the past few years, shifting how quickly companies expect their suppliers to fulfill their orders. I do not think there is anything on the retailer side that is going to prompt a change [for payments] because that would be the tail wagging the dog,” Olsen explained.

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MAY 2, 2016

Walmart is open — not just for business but to new technology ideas. 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.

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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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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? As a result, Home Depot hopes to have lockers in all its brick-and-mortar stores within three years. The Amazon Locker Effect.

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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. The race for drone deliveries among eCommerce companies is getting tense with Walmart inching closer to its drone ambitions. Its application to U.S.

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APRIL 18, 2016

Three months later – well into pilot programs in Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri and less than 6 weeks before the national rollout is set to start in June, the conversation has shifted to customer service, eCommerce and how well Walmart has prepared to step into the digital arena and fight for dominance.

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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. It’s almost unnecessary to say that nearly every retailer is chasing Amazon and whatever it does, but it is true — including, perhaps, for logistics. Competing retailers, along with the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx Corp.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The app, which was initially tested with 200 users, incorporates IBM’s Watson technology for a chatbot-like interaction that culls and constructs a growing list of answers to employee questions. Currently available for Android devices, the app allows employees to socialize questions related to workplace and legal rights.

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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. He said the technology is a “new era in commerce. And that was just the serious stuff.

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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. “We

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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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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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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 24, 2019

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. ” If passed, the measure would require the retailer to consider its 1.5 million hourly U.S.

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MAY 15, 2017

Alpharank CEO Brian Ley had just shown how his Customer Influence Mapping technology enables FIs to spot highly-networked “influencers” among their customer base, and how to leverage those influencers to build better engagement and a more customized UX. “We take two to three years of credit or debit card data.

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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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JANUARY 6, 2020

The technology is often considered a game-changer for supply chain management and logistics operations, able to both elevate the efficiency of operations while connecting corporates to real-time data for deep business intelligence and analytics. Retailers and logistics companies, they need a lot more data, and they want it in real time.”.

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JUNE 5, 2017

They say robots could replace as many as 38 percent of retail workers in the next 10 years, starting with cashiers. Looking ahead,” said President and CEO Doug McMillon , “we will compete with technology, but win with people. Not so for Walmart employees. We will be people-led and tech-empowered.”.

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APRIL 3, 2018

Retail is under pressure to crack the AI code. After all, corporations in every industry are scrambling to adapt and integrate artificial intelligence into their products — and retail is no exception. 15-Min Flash briefing: Can AI Save Physical retail? Using CB Insights data, we dug into the changing retail landscape.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

At the same time, most bank executives agreed that a 20%-25% increase in earnings from the tax break is being earmarked for investments in their franchises: market expansion, raises for employees and, of course, technology investments. Commercial Real Estate.

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