Wal-Mart
July 5, 2016 at 1:12 pm
Walmart Pay has launched in 14 more states on top of a slew of rollouts earlier in the month. While not available yet in all of the retailer's stores (we count 33 states plus Washington, D.C.), it's getting close. This latest deployment includes heavily populated states like California, New York and Washington, so you're far more…
June 30, 2016 at 12:08 pm
Wal-Mart is sweetening the deal for shoppers it wants to win over from Amazon.com by offering a free one-month trial of “ShippingPass,” its answer to its online rival’s Prime subscription plan. The world’s largest retailer said that starting this Friday it was offering a free 30-day trial of ShippingPass. That annual subscription service, like Prime, offers members unlimited…
June 29, 2016 at 11:08 am
This week, Truth In Advertising (TINA) reported Wal-Mart is still misusing the “Made in the USA" label. In a letter to the FTC, the advertising watchdog group urged the group to look into Wal-Mart’s continuous practice of mislabeling products as Made in the USA. The group currently believes over 100 products are mislabeled on Wal-Mart’s…
June 21, 2016 at 1:05 pm
There’s been much debate across the nation in recent months over increasing the minimum wage to $15. Perhaps no other industry would be more affected by such legislation than retail. In particular, Wal-Mart has often been used by proponents of the legislation as the poster child for a higher wage floor. But is that fair?…
June 20, 2016 at 12:28 pm
Wal-Mart is reportedly in discussions to sell its online e-commerce platform in China — Yihaodian — to JD.com, the second-largest online retailer in China after Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. The exact terms of the deal were unclear and discussions remain ongoing, but insiders said it could include a broader partnership between Wal-Mart and JD.com. Total…
June 17, 2016 at 1:56 pm
Retailers are constantly seeking ways to innovate their use of digital media to drive different consumer actions. From email to online video to display, brands have diversified their advertising strategies to remain top of mind for hyperconnected consumers. Best Buy, for example, has used email for years to alert consumers to limited-time sales. Only in…
June 16, 2016 at 2:30 pm
In today's news roundup, find out why Home Depot is suing Visa and MasterCard; the issue that almost caused Macy's workers in New York City to go on strike; Wal-Mart's strategy for optimizing in-store workers; and Target's latest collaboration.
May 13, 2016 at 10:12 am
“Details create the big picture,” said Sanford Weill, former chairman of Citigroup. In the e-commerce arena, this is most true at the pinnacle of your funnel: the checkout. Checkout is online retail’s make-or-break moment. It's the culmination of the customer journey — the moment when a shopper either feels comfortable enough to take out his…
May 12, 2016 at 10:54 am
Wal-Mart sure is trying to be more like rival Amazon.com in an effort to to improve its weak sales trends. The world's largest retailer is testing a two-day shipping subscription service called ShoppingPass that mirrors Amazon's successful Prime service, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Members to ShoppingPass reportedly will get free, two-day…
May 11, 2016 at 11:15 am
Wal-Mart is suing Visa for allowing customers to verify chip-enabled debit card transactions with a signature instead of a PIN. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York Supreme Court says that Visa requires Wal-Mart to accept signature-based transactions for chip debit cards, which Wal-Mart says are a less secure method of payment than PIN-based payments and…
