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Walmart tests self-driving cars

Walmart plans to speed up the home delivery of FMCG products by using self-driving cars – the model is being tested in Arizona, in cooperation with Udelv. In the current...

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New food safety programme from Walmart

Walmart launched its new, blockchain technology food safety programme, which had been developed by IBM and was tested in cooperation with several suppliers in the last 18 months. Walmart Food...

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Walmart buys food delivery company Cornershop

Walmart paid USD 225 million for Cornershop, a food delivery company that is active in Chile and Mexico. Walmart is investing a lot of money in the online sales channel...

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Walmart targets city locations

Jet.com was acquired by Walmart two years ago. The company now offers a personalised shopping experience, a large selection of local and global brands, and three-hour delivery in New York....

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Walmart strengthens presence in the virtual world

Recently Walmart has filed two patents regarding virtual reality shopping. They describe a system in which users wear a VR headset and sensory gloves to get an in-store experience in...

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Walmart strengthens positions in India

For USD 16 billion Walmart is going to buy 77 percent of the shares in Indian online shop Flipkart. This is Walmart’s biggest investment abroad so far. They are competing...

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Walmart testing a new mobile checkout service

Walmart has started testing ‘Check Out With Me’, a new service designed to save customers time. In the lawn and garden centres of more than 350 US stores, members of...

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Walmart expands in India

There is a huge struggle between the world’s largest companies for India’s e-commerce market. For a long time it appeared that this country will also be implicated by Amazon, but...

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Amazon’s price war with Walmart

In June Amazon acquired premium category food retailer Whole Foods. However, this step didn’t result in outperforming Walmart. An analysis by Bloomberg points it out that more than half of...

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The Brandbank, a member of the Nielsen Group enters the US market as the data service provider of Walmart

On 29 June 2016, Nielsen announced the launch of Brandbank into the U.S. Consumer Packaged Goods and retail market, integrated into Wal-Mart's systems as an approved content service provider. Brandbank,...

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Pioneering role for Starbucks

Starbucks introduced its mobile payment system three years ago and today 21 percent of all of their transactions are realised using smartphones and 16 million consumers are using the Starbucks...

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Walmart continues expansion

Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer keeps implementing its original strategy in Canada, despite the fact that in the USA it is trying to enter new channels of retail. Walmart plans...

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