Walmart Partners With Shopify to Expand Online Marketplace Business

June 15, 2020 Reuters

Walmart Inc has partnered with Canadian e-commerce firm Shopify Inc, as the world’s biggest brick-and-mortar retailer ramps up its efforts to capture a bigger slice of the coronavirus-driven surge in online shopping.

Walmart Tests Self-Checkout Only Location

A Walmart in Fayetteville, Arkansas is reimagining the shopping experience during the coronavirus pandemic by using self-checkout counters only, in lieu of traditional cashier lanes.

Walmart Says it Will Discontinue Jet, Which it Acquired for $ 3B in 2016

Amid the coronavirus crisis and its impact on the retail industry, today the retail giant quietly announced in its quarterly report that it would be discontinuing Jet.com.

The Why and How Behind Walmart Express Delivery

“Walmart recently debuted Express delivery, a new service to deliver goods to our customers in under two hours. Here’s why we chose to roll this service out now and how our own internally developed technology helped make it happen quickly when America needed it.”

Walmart, Major Retailers Call for Governments to Ensure Sustainably-Produced Tuna during COVID-19

The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership and more than 50 retailers, brands and seafood companies*, including Walmart, Publix, Nestle, Carrefour and Tesco, today called on the United States, European Union and approximately 45 governments to implement electronic monitoring in tuna fisheries to protect workers and ensure fishing continues to be sustainable.