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  • Reports: Amazon interested in buying BJ’s Wholesale

    WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — Amazon is interested in buying BJ’s Wholesale Club, which is currently up for sale, according to several news reports.

    BJ’s, owned by private equity firms CVC Capital Partners and Leonard Green & Partners, could reportedly fetch more than $4 billion — nine times BJ’s $450 million in EBITDA — if it were sold

  • Walmart opens 100th training academy

    EDMOND, Okla. — Walmart hit the century mark in terms of training academies

    The retailer on Monday celebrated the grand opening of its 100th U.S. training academy at 1225 West I-35 Frontage, Edmond. Walmart training academies were first introduced in 2016 and have expanded to 40 states.

  • Walmart: Health focus goes storewide

    The retail behemoth of Bentonville, Ark., wants to lead Americans to better health habits, better nutritional choices and longer, healthier lives. It’s an ambitious mission for any retail chain, but given its long reach into the nation’s heartland, its enormous marketing clout and its massive consumer drawing power, Walmart’s ability to boost the nation’s health and longevity index may be unmatched by any other single entity save the U.S. government.

  • Walmart brings fight to Amazon with pickup discount effort

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart has fired another shot at Amazon.

    In a move that leverages the retail giant’s vast store and delivery networks and expanding online capabilities, Walmart, starting April 19, will begin offering a discount on merchandise that customers buy online and have shipped to a Walmart store for pickup. Walmart’s new Pickup Discount program will initially be available only on about 10,000 items, but will be expanded to more than one million of the chain’s most popular items by the end of June.

  • More than two-thirds of consumers shopped at Walmart, Target, Walgreens and CVS

    PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. — More than two-thirds of Americans shopped at Walmart, Target, Walgreens, Dollar Tree and CVS, either online or in-store, according to a new index from The NPD Group.

  • Walmart reportedly opening new hometown DC

  • Nice-Pak named Walmart Private Brand Supplier of the Year

    ORANGEBURG, N.Y. — Nice-Pak on Tuesday announced its recognition as the Private Brand Supplier of the Year by Walmart, one of the company's largest customers. Walmart's Private Brand Supplier of the Year Award is new for Walmart in FYE 2017 and was awarded to Nice-Pak as a result of their overall collaboration with product innovation, thought leadership and category insights.

  • Walmart delves deeper into e-commerce with tech incubator launch

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. — The nation’s largest retailer is delving deeper into e-commerce and evolving technology with its newest investment.
     
    Walmart has formed Store No. 8, a technology incubator that will be based in the Silicon Valley. (The new initiative is named after an early Walmart store that company founder Sam Walton used to try out new retail strategies.)
     
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