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  • Walmart: 5 reasons why the Jet.com deal makes sense

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores on Monday announced completion of the company’s acquisition of Jet.com, following expiration of the waiting period under federal regulations. The news was initially shared on Instagram by Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillon.

  • Masque-ology rolls out sheet mask line to Walmart

    LOS ANGELES — Korean skincare facial mask brand Masque-ology on Thursday announced its rollout of its line of affordable sheet masks to Walmart stores. The line wil now be available nationwide at 3,000 Walmart locations. 
     
    "We are very excited to partner with Walmart to launch these new facial masks," says Phillip Ha, CEO of Beauty Architects. "K-Beauty has been in the forefront of skincare in Asia for the last 10 years and we are proud to bring the best products to the U.S."
     
  • Moody’s: Walmart leading charge against Amazon

    NEW YORK — Such brick-and-mortar retailers as Walmart and Best Buy are not only surviving online, but are thriving due to their sizable physical assets and digital investments.
     
    That’s one of the main findings of a new report by Moody's Investors Service, which says that while Amazon keeps raising the stakes online and has a decade-plus advantage over other retailers in e-commerce, it still faces intense competition from the likes of Walmart and Best Buy, who are raising the bar online for other physical merchants. 
  • Ferris: Access is main barrier to addressing eye health

    One disconnect Bausch + Lomb’s John Ferris sees in the conversation about health care is the relative lack of attention paid to eye health — even though age-related macular degeneration affects two-and-a-half times more people than Alzheimer’s disease, and baby boomers are as concerned about vision loss as contracting heart disease and cancer.

  • Creating an omnichannel health solution

    In the retail and CPG industry, few terms get thrown around quite as much as “omnichannel.” But regardless of how it is defined, the in-store experience is still a major part of the customer engagement equation.

  • The future of retail health

    “We are on the verge of an economic crisis that could disrupt the whole U.S. healthcare system.” Our lack of preventive health care — and the implications of that — was a theme conveyed by numerous economists, healthcare entrepreneurs and technology experts gathered at a special thought leadership event co-produced by Mack Elevation and Drug Store News.

  • Consistency, value integral to omnichannel experience

    The keys to providing an omnichannel experience are being able to provide customers with consistency and a clear value, according to Procter & Gamble’s associate director of brand marketing for personal health care, Phil McWaters, whose company has been looking closely at the intersection of big data, cognitive science and behavioral economics.

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