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MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — Walmart today announced the expansion of its global online marketplace to Walmart Canada's flagship online store, Walmart.ca. Through this program, 27 trusted, third-party sellers, curated by Walmart Canada now offer their products on Walmart.ca in categories ranging from home, baby, apparel, toys and sporting goods.

Walmart.ca attracts approximately 8 million unique visits per month.

PLANO, Texas — Crossmark on Monday named Mark Ayer president and CEO of Crossmark Canada. Ayer joined Crossmark Canada as SVP customer development in April 2017.

SEATTLE — Amazon will be wasting no time onboarding Whole Foods, the online retailer announced Thursday. As the company closes the deal on Monday, Amazon will immediately implement lower pricing across the Whole Foods banner, including many popular produce and meat products.

Also, Amazon Lockers will be available in select Whole Foods Market stores, affording Whole Foods a click-and-collect offering. Customers can have products shipped from Amazon.com to their local Whole Foods Market store for pick up or send returns back to Amazon during a trip to the store.

KEASBEY, N.J. — ShopRite is partnering with Kimberly Clark's Huggies Brand on a plan to donate up to a half-million diapers to the National Diaper Bank Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing diapers to babies in need.
 

 ARMONK, N.Y. — IBM and SAP SE on Thursday teamed up to provide a co-innovated solution for the retail and consumer packaged goods industries to help both increase profitability and improve the consumer experience.

MATTHEWS, N.C. — Family Dollar, in an effort to meet new potential branded and private-brand suppliers, is holding two Open Buy Days at its headquarters here in October. The first segment of the Open Buy Day, for household cleaning, paper, general merchandise and health and beauty care, will be held Oct. 19. The second segment will follow this on Oct. 26 for the food, beverage and pet categories.

WALTHAM, Mass. — Sparkling water company Spindrift has a new distribution agreement with the New York metro area’s largest independent non-alcoholic beverage distributor. The company on Friday announced its partnership with Big Geyser, effective Aug. 25 and covering New York’s five boroughs, as well as Westchester, Putnam, Nassau and Suffolk counties.