Walmart News Now

02/10/2011 - 18:46
A New Yorker’s perspective on Walmart

Crain’s New York Business this week reported on an interesting situation involving Walmart and the hype surrounding the company entry into the city. According to author Greg David, “as the opponents of Walmart continue their campaign to prevent the company from opening stores in New York, it remains a mystery how they intend to do that.

02/10/2011 - 18:39
The end is near, better join Sam’s Club

Those who believe the world is on the brink of collapse may want to head over to Sam’s Club.com where the retailer is offering a one-year emergency food supply kit for $949.

02/10/2011 - 18:17
Better than Target, not as good as Amazon
02/10/2011 - 18:05
Imitation born of competitive necessity

Word out of Minneapolis this week courtesy of a Bloomberg story is that Best Buy plans to emulate Walmart’s pricing model in order to confront the issue of price transparency and simplify its operations. Smartphone wielding shoppers armed with price comparison apps have quickly changed how consumers shop and make purchases of highly considered items, such as those which dominate the product mix at Best Buy or in Walmart’s electronics department.

02/10/2011 - 16:13
Paper or Plastic, Verizon or AT&T

Walmart has sold AT&T iPhones in its store for several years now so it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that the company would be offering the iPhone 4 now that it is available on the Verizon network.

02/10/2011 - 16:09
Analyst nervous about WMT’s Q4 comp

A lack of visibility into Walmart’s sales performance coupled with concerns about the pace of a U.S. sales recovery is contributing to some apprehension on Wall Street regarding the company’s fourth-quarter performance.

02/10/2011 - 16:04
Department stores emerge as concern along with Dollar stores

The retail consulting and research firm Customer Growth Partners is out with a new report highlighting the fact that department stores gained market share last year for the first time in nearly three decades.

02/10/2011 - 16:00
Being cool is getting cheaper

Walmart and Target are said to be among major corporations working with the Department of Energy on the development of a new breed of energy-efficient air conditioners.

02/10/2011 - 15:56
Ambitious sustainability goal is already attained by some

Being supplied by 100% renewable energy sounded like a lofty goal when it was identified as one of Walmart’s top three sustainability priorities in late 2005, but as other retailers have demonstrated, it is an attainable goal.

02/09/2011 - 11:27
Walmart to offer Verizon iPhone at select stores

Walmart announced that iPhone 4 on the Verizon Wireless network will be available in select Walmart stores starting Feb. 10.

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