Walmart is introducing new hardware and home offerings as it expands its private brands selection. The new offerings, announced last week, come at a time when consumers are feeling more financial pressure even as they keep spending. According to a Walmart news release, the new...
Memorial Day weekend was supposed to provide another read on the resilience of the American consumer. Instead, for Amazon and Walmart, the holiday became a case study in delayed discretionary purchases. The most revealing signal came from social media feeds rather than cash registers. Across...
Amazon introduced a solution that enables retailers to tap into the technology and learnings from its artificial intelligence shopping assistant to build their own conversational shopping experience. The new Agentic Shopping Assistant on AWS (ASA on AWS) is based on Alexa for Shopping and can...
Walmart has introduced a logistics strategy designed to simplify the way suppliers move products into its distribution network. The Prepaid Consolidation program, announced Tuesday (May 26), is aimed at getting products to stores and shoppers faster by simplifying inbound supplier logistics, while expanding Walmart’s first-mile...
Retail has long worked from the straightforward assumption that customers who visit more often and spend more each trip deserve the most attention. That logic still explains part of consumer behavior, but the underlying economics are becoming harder to read. A shopper can generate impressive...
A pair of Walmart executives are reportedly leaving the retail giant in the wake of new CEO John Furner’s arrival. That’s according to a report Friday (May 22) from CNBC, citing internal memos seen by the network. These memos say that Tom Ward, the chief...
A sports fan’s relationship with their team doesn’t stay in the stands. It follows them online, into team stores, onto betting apps and through endless searches for the right jersey at the right moment. For a retailer sitting at the center of that behavior, the...
Retail scale still matters. But Walmart’s first quarter of fiscal year 2027 made clear the company’s next phase of growth runs through something harder to copy than store count: how customers move between stores, delivery, digital channels and membership ecosystems. Walmart reported another quarter of...
Kroger is reportedly considering steep price cuts to take on other grocery giants. Greg Foran, the former Walmart executive who joined the supermarket chain as CEO earlier this year, said in a Bloomberg News interview published Thursday (May 21) that the company is setting the stage to reduce prices across...