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Is Walmart Increasing Its Focus On Indian E-commerce Market?
WalMart (NYSE:WMT) is reported to be in partnership talks with Indian e-commerce companies such as Flipkart, Snapdeal, Grofers and Big Basket to tap into the growing online retail market in the country. The company had to stall its expansion pl...
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Can Walmart-Pay Help Drive Revenues?
WalMart ‘s (NYSE:WMT) latest initiative is aimed at making store payments as convenient as online payments. The company launched its mobile payments solution “Walmart Pay” on December 10 th to enable customers to make payments via their sma...
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Wal-Mart Exceeds Expectations In Q3 As Solid Store Performance Drives Top Line
The last month or so has been full of negativity around WalMart ‘s (NYSE:WMT) ability to sustain growth in a changing retail landscape. The company’s decision to ramp up investments did not help either, as WalMart’s stock price ...
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Omni-Channel Retailing Could Drive Future Growth For Walmart
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) is increasing its investment in technology and people with a twofold aim. In a challenging retail market, it aims to improve customer experience with better quality sales associates and store managers by increasing minimum wa...
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Wal-Mart’s Plan To Invest Heavily Caused The 10% Fall In The Stock
On October 14th, WalMart (NYSE:WMT) held its 22nd annual investor conference where it shared its long-term strategy to transform into an omni-channel retailer, more importantly, the first to do on such a huge scale. The management stressed on th...
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How Low Revenue Per Square Foot Is Impacting Walmart’s ROI?
Return on Investment is a meaningful metric to gauge Wal-Mart ‘s (NYSE:WMT) performance. It helps investors assess how effectively Walmart is deploying its assets or how much return is generated on each dollar invested in Walmart. A decli...
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Three Ways Walmart Is Making Big Strides In Its Battle Against Online Retailers
Retail giant, WalMart (NYSE:WMT), earns more than half of its revenues from groceries and hasn’t had a good time this year in the business, owing to weak consumer spending and deflation in food prices. In the light of its competitors gainin...
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Suppliers Demand Better Terms, As Wal-Mart Charges New Fees To Make Up For Low Margins
This year is turning out to be a rather forgettable one for Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT). Despite healthy revenue growth, the company hasn’t been able to realize higher profits. During the recent earnings release in August, the company attributed t...
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How Will Wal-Mart’s Shipping Pass Program Progress Against Amazon’s Prime?
Similar to Amazon ‘s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Prime membership program, retail giant Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) is about to launch its Shipping Pass, where customers can sign up for $50 a year for free three-day shipping on walmart.com orders. The company i...
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Wal-Mart’s Missed Earnings Signal A Bleak 2015
Retail giant Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) missed consensus estimates with its Q1 fiscal 2016 release, as revenues fell slightly and profits declined more-than-expected. The company reported net revenues of $114.8 billion, marginally below last year, and b...
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Wal-Mart Earnings Preview: Traffic Decline, Cautious Spending And Currency Headwinds Will Weigh On Growth
Retail giant Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) is scheduled to release its Q1 fiscal 2016 earnings on May 19th and we expect its results to be affected both by a continuing decline in foot traffic and as well as the size of its online relative to the whole. A...
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Why Sam’s Club Revenue Per Square Foot Is Likely To Increase Going Forward
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) operates around 630 outlets in the U.S. for its warehouse model, Sam’s Club. This format generates a higher revenue per square foot as compared to the retailer’s mainline stores, given that most purchases at a ware...
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Retail Week In Review: Wal-Mart and Target
The past week was stable for retail behemoths – Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) and Target (NYSE:TGT), as stock for both companies did not move much. Wal-Mart faced some issues with its fired employees after it closed some stores, citing plumbing issu...
