BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Following a successful pilot at a Walmart location in Arkansas, the retailer and SES-imagotag are expanding their strategic relationship to digitize the shelf-edge. The pilot successfully implemented key technological advances to optimize associate productivity and customer experience, and will now be expanded to a much larger set of Walmart locations across the
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Walmart posted mixed results for the first quarter of fiscal 2023. Adjusted earnings per share for the three months ended April 30 were $1.30, well short of the $1.48 that analysts had forecast. The company said inflation hurt the bottom line. Revenue beat analysts’ estimates, rising 2.4% to $141.57 billion. Wall Street
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Walmart said it is introducing a career program giving young professionals “the opportunity to jump-start their careers by helping run a multi-million-dollar business: one of our Walmart stores.” The College2Career program will be introduced as a pilot this summer for college students and recent graduates, the retailer said on its website. Walmart
WASHINGTON — President Biden Thursday asked retailers and manufacturers, including Walmart, Target, Reckitt, and Gerber, to do more to help families get infant formula. He discussed Reckitt and Gerber’s efforts to increase production to make up for lost supply from Abbott, and asked them to identify other ways the administration can help them. The conversation
BENTONVILLE. Ark. – Walmart is celebrating the grand opening of its Import Distribution Center in South Carolina, a $220 million facility designed to store and sort imported goods that arrive through the Port of Charleston – the country’s eighth-largest port — for delivery to 850 regional Walmart and Sam’s Club locations across the Southeast. “Our
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart is inviting its communities to get healthy this spring at Walmart Wellness Day on Saturday April 23, where customers can receive free glucose, cholesterol, BMI and blood pressure screenings as well as COVID-19 vaccines and affordable immunizations like shingles, pneumonia, tetanus, hepatitis, HPV and flu at pharmacies nationwide. The goal of
CHICAGO — Thousands of Walmart stores and Sam’s Clubs are teaming up with their customers, members, suppliers and associates for the ninth annual “Fight Hunger. Spark Change.” campaign, according to the retailer, which says the campaign will run online and in stores from April 18-May 15. There are three easy ways for consumers to support
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart is acting to ease supply chain bottlenecks by raising pay for first-year truck drivers and expanding a training program for employees who would like to become truckers. Walmart announced this month it was boosting starting pay for drivers in its trucking fleet to between $95,000 and $100,000 a year. The retailer
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Valvoline Inc. on Wednesday named former Walmart executive Lori Flees as the president of its Retail Services business segment, reporting directly to CEO Sam Mitchell. Flees joins Valvoline after nearly a decade with Walmart where she most recently held the position of senior vice president and chief operating officer of its health
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Lori Flees has left her position as senior vice president and chief operating officer of Walmart Health & Wellness. She announced her departure from Walmart in a post on her LinkedIn page on Friday. Lori Flees “Thank you to all the associates I had the opportunity to meet and serve – you
SAN FRANCISCO — Walmart recently announced its 9th annual Open Call and, for the fourth year in a row, is teaming up with RangeMe to streamline submissions for the industry-leading initiative to find products made, grown, and assembled in the United States. “We are excited to continue partnering with Walmart on Open Call for the
NEW YORK — Colgate-Palmolive Co.’s Palmolive brand and Walmart are shaking up the dish soap category with the launch of Palmolive Shake & Clean Dish Soap, which cuts grease on dishes while helping consumers reduce plastic waste consumption. The dish soap is one way the brand said it is reimagining a future with less plastic.