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Walmart, OpenAI partner for purchases in ChatGPT
As part of a larger partnership, the mass retailer will be available through the AI chatbot’s new Instant Checkout feature. As part of a larger partnership with OpenAI, Walmart on...
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Carrefour Reportedly Exploring Sale Of Polish Operations
French retail giant Carrefour is reportedly preparing to divest its Polish operations, which include around 800 stores and 40 shopping centres. Several French media outlets, including publication La Lettre, have...
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Walmart To Launch First Stores In South Africa By Year-End
US retailer Walmart will launch its first branded stores in South Africa this year, it said on Tuesday. According to ESM’s report, the move by Walmart, which already owns South...
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Walmart recruits European marketplace sellers
Walmart is actively targeting potential sellers in the United Kingdom and continental Europe. The world’s largest retailer is trying to entice merchants to enter the U.S., Canadian, Mexican, and Chilean...
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Radioactive contamination found in a popular product
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a precautionary warning about frozen shrimp sold at certain Walmart stores after radioactive contamination was found in other products from the...
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Walmart extends employee discount to include nearly all grocery products
Walmart is giving its approximate 1.6 million U.S. employees a new perk. The country’s largest private employer is extending its 10% employee discount to include purchases of nearly all grocery...
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Walmart bets big on AI with ‘super agent’ strategy
The retailer is centralizing AI capabilities to avoid fragmentation, noting that the technology is already being utilized by 900,000 associates. Unifying its approach to the technology, Walmart launched a new...
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Walmart tests dark stores
As the retailer accelerates its delivery efforts, the brick-and-mortar locations will fulfill online orders — but are not open to the public. Walmart is testing dark stores, or brick-and-mortar locations...
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Walmart opens first-ever owned and operated case-ready beef facility
The discount giant opened a case-ready beef facility in Olathe, Kan. On Friday, June 27, 2025. This marks the first time Walmart has had an owned and operated location for producing...
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Walmart to bring fast-casual hot dog restaurant to 6 stores
The retailer has partnered with Wienerschnitzel, marking its latest move to grow its roster of in-store quick-service restaurant partners. Walmart is welcoming a new restaurant chain into its lineup of...
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Walmart continues to bolster pharmacy, opens largest yet prescription processing facility
The retailer has also seen 10% volume growth via its pharmacy delivery service which started last quarter Walmart has opened its largest centralized prescription processing facility to date, Supermarket News...
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Walmart cuts 1,500 corporate jobs
Calling it a restructuring effort, Walmart plans to eliminate 1,500 corporate jobs in the U.S. as the big-box retailer aims to cut expenses and accelerate decision-making, according to Supermarket News...
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Trump attacks Walmart: debate over US tariffs and inflation flares up
The former president took to Truth Social to criticize the retail giant for warning about rising prices, saying that consumers would ultimately pay for tariffs, economists say. Former US President...
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Social media replaces search engines as key shopping, discovery tool
Platforms like TikTok and Douyin are growing rapidly. Nearly half of connected consumers began turning to social media first for product searches, services, and recommendations in 2024. According to a...
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Walmart deploys AI for fresh produce monitoring and forecasting
Walmart Inc. continues to improve oversight of its fresh produce supply chain with artificial intelligence technology. The discount giant is deploying custom-built solutions on the Cropin generative AI-equipped agricultural intelligence platform...
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Walmart to make $6 billion investment in Mexico; adding 1,500 stores by 2030
Walmart Inc. is making a big investment to expand its presence south of the border. Walmart de México y Centroamérica (Walmex) plans to invest more than $6 billion in Mexico in 2025...
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Walmart to introduce a price prediction system
Walmart’s goal is to strengthen its food supply chain by using a price prediction system to better assess medium- and long-term climate risks, which are relevant to the global agricultural...
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PepsiCo strikes near-$2bn deal to buy Poppi
PepsiCo has struck a deal to buy US prebiotic soda brand Poppi for $1.95bn. The US drinks giant said it was looking to meet consumers’ “growing interest in health and...
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Walmart to deploy AI price forecasting tool
The retailer will use tech provided by Helios to predict the price and availability of agricultural commodities. Walmart will soon begin using software that calculates climate risk and provides price...
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ISM 2025: Sweet Euphoria, With Full Halls, Good Business, And A Top Atmosphere
ISM, in Cologne, confirmed its position as the leading worldwide trade fair of a flourishing sweet-and-snack industry from 2 to 5 February 2025. The event impressively demonstrated that the industry is...
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You are standing here! – Picture of the day
Walmart’s in-store GPS not only shows the locations of departments and products, but also, if necessary, “You are here” (for example, who you arrived with)....
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AI could have USD 1.6 thousand billion impact in North America by 2030
Retailers could benefit from the use of AI to varying degrees, according to the “2024 AI Readiness Index” of IHL Group. This article is available for reading in Trade magazin...
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Unilever Strikes Climate Deals With Walmart And Others
Unilever has agreed sustainability deals with its top ten retail customers, including Walmart, aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions and minimising waste in its supply chain, the consumer giant’s CEO...
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Naomi Osaka launches her own vegan suncare line
Finding that people of colour are an afterthought in suncare research and discourse, former world number one tennis player Naomi Osaka has created her KINLÒ brand. This article is available...
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Greenwashing wouldn’t be enough today
According to the Consumer Goods Sustainability Report 2024 by Accenture, 85% of FMCG companies have sped up their sustainability efforts in response to changing consumer demands and regulatory pressure. This...
Read moreA new type of fraud has been noticed at self-service cash registers
In the city of Spring, Texas, a new type of fraud has come to light at Walmart’s self-service checkouts, which was brought to the attention of an observant customer. An...
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Walmart owns the top 5 private label brands
Numerator’s updated Private Label Trends Tracker has found that nearly all U.S. households purchased private label products in grocery, health and beauty, household, and home and garden categories over the last 12 months,...
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Walmart brings food waste reduction tech to 1.4K stores
The retailer partnered with organics recycler Denali to install technology that separates food from packaging in the back of Walmart and Sam’s Club locations. Walmart Inc. is rolling out technology to help store...
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55% of Gen Z have made an online purchase while browsing social media
A new survey from Walmart and Morning Consult indicates that social media is becoming a key platform for product discovery. Indicating the importance of social commerce, more than half (55%)...
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Walmart Canada to debut sensory-friendly store hours
Walmart Canada is launching a new initiative to make its stores more inclusive to all shoppers. The retailer is adding sensory-friendly hours at stores across Canada with the aim to make shopping...
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