by - October 13, 2016 6:43 pm
The Walmart Express Campus store experiment was unveiled in 2011 with the opening of a mini-convenience store at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. But the retailer has closed two…
by - October 3, 2016 8:40 pm
While the three recent announced store closures by Walmart U.S. are just a tiny slice of the retailer’s larger national footprint, the move does reinforce management’s focus on performance and…
by - September 30, 2016 9:59 am
Dustin Serio, a customer service manager at Walmart Store 100 in Bentonville, is happy the hourly bonuses are back. The five-year Walmart employee said it is a morale builder and…
by - September 1, 2016 11:24 am
Retail giant Walmart U.S. confirmed plans to centralize some invoicing and store accounting roles, roughly one-to-two positions per store over the next few months. Wal-Mart Spokeswoman Deisha Barnett told Talk…
by - August 31, 2016 10:00 pm
With just 115 days until Christmas, retail giant Wal-Mart Stores said it’s ready, set, go at its stores and online for hundreds of kid-approved gifts and several big exclusive deals…
by - August 30, 2016 3:55 pm
Wal-Mart Stores CEO Doug McMillon recently said the retailer would ramp up its price rollback strategy a quarter or two earlier than planned. In the process, the retailer also abandoned…
by - August 18, 2016 3:38 pm
Wall Street was closely eyeing the results of retail giant Wal-Mart Stores and its second quarter earnings report Thursday (Aug. 18) on the heels of disappointing results from Target the…
by - July 12, 2016 2:09 pm
There are 26 million households Walmart U.S. deems as “busy families” and most are in need of low prices and convenient shopping formats, according to Tony Rogers, chief marketing officer…
by - July 6, 2016 4:22 pm
WalmartPay is now available in all of the retail giant’s 4,600-plus stores in the U.S., marking one of the fastest nationwide rollouts the company has launched in recent years. Walmart’s…
by - June 28, 2016 11:34 am
In an effort to expand its online products in a big way, Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores said each of the more than 450 entrepreneurs pitching nearly 800 products during Tuesday’s Open…
by - June 20, 2016 5:38 am
Constant change is the norm in retail and expectations for customer service, technology enhancements and value pricing have never been higher, according to executives from some of the largest U.S….
by - June 17, 2016 2:50 pm
Workplace homicides, while not that common, often garner major media attention. Such was the case when 54-year-old Walmart employee Mohammad Moghaddam took his manager and another store worker hostage in…
by - June 15, 2016 11:06 am
It won’t be the George Jetson robot maid (as if many Millennials know who that is), but Walmart is working with Five Elements Robotics to develop a shopping cart that…
by - June 14, 2016 8:11 pm
Tony Rogers, the new chief marketing officer for Walmart U.S., says customers should in the coming months expect a healthy dose of retailtainment in stores and he has told suppliers…
by - June 8, 2016 4:18 pm
An official with Springdale-based Harps Foods said Wednesday (June 8) the company is working with Wal-Mart Stores to buy six of the recently closed Walmart Express formats in Benton, Washington,…
by - June 6, 2016 9:37 am
Walmart’s new 12,000-square-foot culinary and innovation center attached to the retail giant’s home office in Bentonville will help Walmart win on price and deliver higher quality food items than it’s…
by - June 3, 2016 4:38 pm
Doug McMillon, CEO of Wal-Mart Stores, asked analysts representing large U.S. investment firms for patience as the retail giant tries to be nimble and test new services such as partnering…
by - June 1, 2016 12:35 pm
Smiley, once an icon at Walmart’s U.S. stores and in its advertising, is returning to the retailer’s marketing team after a decade on the bench, according to Judith McKenna, chief…
by - May 19, 2016 5:05 pm
Everyday low prices are the root mission of Walmart U.S., and it’s one of the lowest cost retailers on the planet. But intense competition from Aldi and other discounters continue…
by - April 28, 2016 3:52 pm
Walmart is enlisting technology provider help by inviting them to a first-ever Open Call in Bentonville slated for Oct. 6, the retailer said Thursday (April 28). The Open Call is held…
