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  • Walmart set to add jobs in 2017
    Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer with nearly 1.5 million associates, plans to add 10,000 new retail jobs in its upcoming fiscal year, which begins on February 1, 2017.
     
    The discounter says the new jobs will be created through the opening of 59 new, expanded and relocated Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities as well as e-commerce services. 
      

  • Walmart reportedly shaking up executive team to blend stores, online
    Walmart has made some big changes in its executive ranks, bringing together management of its Web and retail teams.  
     
    The changes, which the chain has not officially announced, come on the heels of media reports that Karenann Terrell would step down as CIO of Walmart Stores on Feb. 24. As reported by CNBC.com, Walmart’s executive realignment includes the following:
     

  • Walmart CIO reportedly set to step down next month
    Wal-Mart Stores is reportedly losing its top technology executive. 
     
    Karenann Terrell will step down as CIO of Wal-Mart on February 24, the Wall Street Journal reported. Terrell has served in the position for nearly five years.
       
    The retailer, which did not say where Terrell is headed, expects to announce new leadership in technology “shortly,” according to the report.
         

  • GNC, Walmart founding members of Supplement Safety and Compliance Initiative

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Natural Products Association on Wednesday formed the Supplement Safety and Compliance Initiative, bringing together some of the largest retailers of natural products and supplements, including GNC and Walmart, on self-regulating the sale of VMS products.

  • Walmart teams with Sam’s Club to offer free health screenings

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart and Sam’s Club are teaming up to offer free health screenings at more than 5,200 locations.

    Called Walmart Wellness Day, the event will take place on Jan. 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. Free screenings will include blood glucose, blood pressure, vision, and for this first time, body fat and body mass index testing. Product samples and health insurance information will also be available.

  • Sam’s Club CEO Rosalind Brewer to retire Feb. 1
    BENTONVILLE, Ark. — The ranks of female retail CEOs is losing one of its highest-profile members.
     
    Rosalind G. Brewer, 54, has told Walmart she plans to retire as executive VP, president and CEO of Sam’s Club, effective Feb. 1, 2017. She will be succeeded by company veteran John Furner, 42, who joined Walmart as an hourly associate in 1993, effective Feb. 1. The news was announced in a filing by the chain.
     

  • Former Walmart chief merchant named Family Dollar COO

    CHESAPEAKE, Va.  — Dollar Tree and its Family Dollar subsidiary on Thursday added former Walmart chief merchant Duncan Mac Naughton to the team and promoted Dollar Tree president and COO Gary Philbin to the role of enterprise president.

  • A major shift from heavy buying to light buying

    A key trend captured by the 2016 TABS Analytics Vitamin and Minerals Supplements study is the continued decline in the number of heavy buyers (those who purchased more than three types of vitamins in a year). Heavy-buyer penetration peaked at 40% in 2012, but in 2016, heavy-buyer penetration dropped to 30%.

    (Click here to view the full VMS Report.)

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