by - August 17, 2021 10:24 am
Walmart reported second-quarter net income of $4.276 billion or $1.52 per share for the period ending July 31. While net income was down 39% year-over-year, the retail giant beat the…
by - August 16, 2021 12:45 pm
Walmart heir and philanthropist Alice Walton and her foundation will partner with the Cleveland Clinic to improve specialty care access in Northwest Arkansas. The Alice L Walton Foundation announced on…
by - August 12, 2021 11:51 am
Bitten by the entrepreneur bug, Caitie Gehlhausen of Indianapolis always wanted to run her own company. She wasn’t sure what that would be or where the journey would take her….
by - August 8, 2021 2:36 pm
Retailers seek to grow market share as consumers are expected to spend a record $37.1 billion on back-to-school items. The National Retail Federation anticipates families with children in grades K-12…
by - August 5, 2021 5:17 pm
Most equity analysts expect improved third-quarter numbers from Tyson Foods with a turnaround in the chicken segment, gains in prepared foods and international with solid beef results. The company reports…
by - July 31, 2021 10:08 am
Two Arkansas-based companies made the cut at Walmart’s eighth annual Open Call event to get their products on the retailer’s shelves. Camo Dust, based in Lonoke, and Bentonville-based Bucklebury each…
by - July 30, 2021 3:21 pm
Walmart on Friday (July 30) joined a growing number of companies requiring all or certain employees to be vaccinated. The Bentonville-based retailer said all market, regional and divisional employees working…
by - July 28, 2021 2:42 pm
Taking another play from Amazon’s operational game plan, Walmart has partnered with the Adobe Commerce retail platform to sell its cloud-based tech and fulfillment services to smaller retail operations in…
by - July 28, 2021 1:09 pm
Harps Food Stores Inc. has plenty to celebrate in its 91st year of business. The Springdale-based company has come a long way since founders Floy and Harvard Harp opened the…
by - July 27, 2021 12:42 pm
Walmart is ending the price of its $1 per-day college benefit for approximately 1.5 million U.S. employees and is instead making a $1 billion investment over the next five years…
by - July 26, 2021 2:31 pm
Tyson Foods has tested a food composting program with local sustainability startup Food Loops in the meat giant’s corporate cafeteria. Food scraps have been collected by Food Loops and turned…
by - July 21, 2021 7:19 pm
According to their July reports, the combined sales tax collected by the region’s four largest cities in May totaled $7.57 million, up 22.76%. Revenue across the region has risen by…
by - July 21, 2021 11:57 am
Rogers-based SKU Ninja + WhyteSpyder, an e-commerce software and digital merchandising company, is expanding with the acquisition of DotCom Partners. Former Walmart e-commerce merchants founded the agency in 2020 to provide…
by - July 21, 2021 9:02 am
The consumer packaged goods segment lags Walmart and Amazon in the shift to omnichannel transformation. A report from the Food Institute and Data Impact said many market watchers believed an…
by - July 20, 2021 6:24 pm
According to analysts who cover the sector, the COVID-19 pandemic did help some retailers speed up their online market share growth as much as three years ahead of schedule. A…
by - July 19, 2021 2:04 pm
Retail sales across the U.S. rebounded in June. Demand remains strong despite shifting away from goods to services and travel and declining automobile sales. The Department of Commerce reported Friday…
by - July 15, 2021 4:47 pm
Northwest Arkansas may be the fourth best place to live in the U.S., according to the U.S. News and World Report, but there are more than 10,000 job openings in…
by - July 14, 2021 3:01 pm
Walmart said Wednesday (July 14) it plans to place Symbotic robotic technology in 25 of its 42 regional distribution centers (RDC’s). The retail giant did not disclose the cost but…
by - July 13, 2021 2:59 pm
The Federal Reserve estimated consumer prices will jump 3.4% in the fourth quarter compared to last year. Retail food and consumable prices are up between 8% and 9% compared with…
by - July 9, 2021 8:46 am
U.S. discretionary spending on general merchandise continues to be healthier than expected. Dollar sales for the week ending June 12 rose 15% over the same period two years ago, continuing…
