This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Transportation & Logistics Briefing subscribers hours before it appeared on Business Insider. To be the first to know, please click here. Retail giants Amazon and Walmart have been actively exploring ways to get goods to consumers for some time now. And, earlier this week, both companies made […]
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MORGAN STANLEY: Amazon and Walmart are duking it out in a $4 trillion market (WMT)
Jim Anderson/AP Photos The retail sales market will grow to $ 4.3 trillion by 2021, Morgan Stanley analysts estimate. Walmart‘s opportunity for upscaling its customer base, which includes low income earners, is greater than Amazon’s opportunity for downscaling, they said. But competition with Amazon may weigh on Walmart’s margins. Watch Walmart trade in real-time here. […]
Aldi is overhauling its stores to win the grocery wars — and it’s coming straight for Walmart and Kroger
Business Insider/Hayley Peterson Aldi is adding more fresh, organic, vegetarian, and vegan items to its US stores in what will be the biggest product refresh in its history. Once the product rollout is complete in early 2019, about 20% of the items in Aldi’s stores will be new. Some of those items include veggie noodles, […]
Furious moms unleash on Target and Walmart over ‘hooker style’ shorts for kids (TGT, WMT)
Target Target is being accused of selling “hooker type shorts” for teen girls in a parenting Facebook post that has since gone viral. A mother of a teen girl took to social media to vent her frustration at not being able to find suitable clothing for her 10-year-old daughter at Target. The post has been flooded […]
Angry teen drives Ram pickup into Walmart after argument with girlfriend
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Walmart employees share 5 annoying things they wish shoppers would stop doing
Walmart jobs can be rough when customers are rude. Some employees have spoken to Business Insider about particularly gob-smacking behaviors from shoppers. They highlighted people eating produce and leaving items throughout the store as particularly annoying. Walmart jobs, for the most part, require associates to interact with the public. Occasionally, that can lead to some […]
Walmart blasts Trump administration’s ‘disturbing’ detainment of migrant children in one of its former stores (WMT)
Administration for Children and Families at the US Department of Health and Human Services Walmart on Tuesday attacked the Trump administration’s detainment of migrant children in one of its former stores. “We had no idea our former store would be used for such a disturbing purpose,” Walmart tweeted. “We are just as shocked and disappointed […]
These photos reveal what it’s like to shop at Walmart in Japan (WMT)
AP Photo/Koji Sasahara Walmart operates the Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu, which looks surprisingly similar to Walmart stores in the United States. Walmart acquired the Seiyu grocery chain in 2008, six years after initially investing in it. Seiyu carries a lot of American candy bars, sodas, meats, and more. It also has an arcade and food court. Even […]
Walmart shutters its Scan & Go program (WMT)
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence “E-Commerce Briefing” subscribers hours before appearing on Business Insider. To be the first to know, please click here. Walmart has officially decided to end its “Scan & Go” program, Business Insider reports. The program was Walmart’s take on cashierless checkout; it allowed customers to scan their items with […]
The 11-year-old boy who went viral for yodelling at a Walmart just performed at Coachella
Instagram Embed: //instagram.com/p/Bhh4sHdhFpO/embed Width: 658px The viral ‘yodeling kid’ just performed at Coachella. 11-year-old Mason Ramsey became a YouTube sensation after performing a Hank Williams country song at an Illinois Walmart last week. On Friday afternoon, he appeared on the Coachella stage wearing a cowboy hat. He performed ‘Lovesick Blues’ in front of a cheering […]