Walmart is eliminating the position of president at its Jet.com subsidiary, which it acquired in 2016, as it further merges the rest of its team with its namesake online operations.
The McLain Group of Fayetteville filed three lawsuits in recent weeks against a construction company it hired to build a Speedy Splash car wash facility in Lowell and another Speedy Splash in Tulsa.
A startup that offers financial services to the cannabis industry has scored $800,000 from investors.
The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission will meet Wednesday to discuss company name, location and floor-plan changes, as well as four requests for ownership changes in the state's burgeoning medical cannabis industry. read more >
Startups that build medical devices must clear some high hurdles, but the rewards can be huge. read more >
Americans stepped up their retail spending last month, a sign that recent worries about cautious consumers dragging on growth may have been overdone. read more >
When states legalize pot for all adults, long-standing medical marijuana programs take a big hit, in some cases losing more than half their registered patients in just a few years, according to a data analysis by The Associated Press. read more >
The Arkansas General Assembly can be a busy place when it's in session, and sometimes new laws can get overlooked. One such is Act 571 of 2019. read more >
New Age Hemp LLC's leadership wants to make two things starkly clear: Grandma's hemp-based CBD oil is legal, and it won't make her high. read more >
Jamie Davidson, the Little Rock businessman who sold his Strong Suit Clothing company two years ago, has found his next startup: Tic Toc Auto. read more >
Kappa Realty LLC, led by Chris Robertson, bought the 17.6-acre home of the Riverdale Shopping Center at 2500-2610 Cantrell Road from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock. read more >
Amy Tu, the EVP and general counsel at Tyson Foods, says there's growing global demand for all forms of protein. read more >
Bernie Sanders' proposal to Walmart is commonly referred to as "codetermination," a practice mandated in several European countries. Blake Lewis explains what it is, how it works and whether we'll see more of it in the U.S. read more >
Walmart is now offering to have one of its employees deliver fresh groceries and put them in your refrigerator when you're not home. The service, called InHome Delivery, rolls out this fall to 1 million customers in three cities: Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Missouri, and Vero Beach, Florida. read more >
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders criticizes Walmart for paying its employees "starvation wages" during his presentation at the retailers' shareholders' meeting in Rogers. read more >
Emerging leaders from business, nonprofit and policy sectors can again learn from some of the most successful and recognizable names in Arkansas as part of the Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy. read more >
Walmart is extending its debt-free college benefits to high schoolers as a way to attract and retain workers in a tight labor market. read more >
An investment group tied to George's Inc. of Springdale has accused a California nutrition company of misrepresenting its financial status in order to entice the group to make a $3 million investment. read more >
Apartments in southwest Little Rock lead off this week's installment of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >
Median incomes of U.S. households are rising again, and “those headed by a Millennial (someone age 22 to 37) now earn more than young adult households did at nearly any time in the past 50 years,” according to the Pew Research Center. read more >
Rocky Hyatt can easily tell you why he talks up Channellock pliers; he's not as sure why the Pennsylvania toolmaker chose him for an ad campaign. read more >
Overestimating one's own competence is not really the news here. What's new is the consistency with which other people — complete strangers, even — interpret confidence as competence. read more >
We have suggested to Michael Pakko, the state economic forecaster, that the volume of Movers & Shakers landing in our queue be considered an economic indicator. By that indication, Arkansas' economy is humming. read more >
An affiliate of Crow Holdings of Dallas bought the 27,718-SF retail center in west Little Rock. read more >
Walmart's initiative to change its “people greeter” jobs to ones that require more physical labor brought complaints and a lawsuit against the Bentonville retailer over allegations that it violated the Americans With Disabilities Act. read more >
With unemployment continuing to be at undeniably low rates, the labor market is tight. Usually tight labor markets — more jobs than available or desirous workers — result in increased wage pressure as businesses increase salaries to attract the workers they want. And that contributes to inflation. But there is no wage pressure. read more >
Dave Wilgus became CEO of HFA of Bentonville last month, succeeding Harrison French. read more >
Meet 40 impressive young business and community leaders of Arkansas who will give you confidence that our state will be in good hands for decades to some. read more >
The state's new medical marijuana industry is rolling ahead with a second grow center and a third dispensary — the first outside Hot Springs — poised to join the lineup. read more >
The surprise announcement by President Donald Trump of an escalating tariff regime against Mexico sent ripples through almost every economic sector in the U.S. read more >
Coffee supplier and service provider Westrock Coffee Co. announced Wednesday the expansion of its North Little Rock roasting and packaging plant. read more >
Walmart has hired a tech veteran whose resume includes stints at Amazon, Microsoft and Google for a newly elevated position of chief technology officer and chief development officer. read more >
American consumers felt more confident this month, shrugging off a rocky stock market and heightened trade tensions between the United States and China. read more >
