Walmart Rolls Out Unlimited Grocery Delivery Subscription
Walmart is rolling out an unlimited grocery delivery subscription service this fall as it races to gain an advantage in the competitive fresh food business. read more >
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Tech World Still a Man’s World
Although the percentage of women in the U.S. workforce now stands at 46.8%, it remains much lower than that in the technology sector. read more >
Mayor Sees Signs Amazon May Stay in NLR Awhile
North Little Rock has 17 acres to offer to Amazon for a permanent facility or expansion. A permanent or expanded facility would require at least 10-15 acres and could create up to 300 jobs, according to the Mayor Joe Smith. read more >
Top Stockholders in Arkansas Buoyed by Runup in Markets
It’s been almost two years since Arkansas Business listed the state’s top stockholders based on the value of publicly disclosed stock. Since then, the Walton family’s fortune — the part disclosed publicly — has increased by more than $20 billion. read more >
Walmart, Other Retail Rivals Crash Amazon's Prime Day Party
The gravitational pull of Amazon Prime Day is so strong on shoppers it's benefiting other retailers as well, according to an early analysis from a key data group. read more >
Walmart Service to Deliver Groceries Inside Customers' Homes
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 >
Target's Beats 1Q Estimates As Online Strategy Pays Off
An aggressive campaign at Walmart rival Target to let customers do more online is paying off. read more >
Walmart Begins Rolling Out Next-Day Shipping
Walmart is rolling out free next-day delivery on its most popular items, increasing the stakes in the retail shipping wars. The retailer says next-day delivery will roll out to 75% of the U.S. population by year-end. read more >
Startup Roadie Gets More Stephens Cash
Five years after its founding, Roadie, the crowdsourced delivery service startup based in Atlanta, has attracted partnerships with major retailers, including Walmart, and, in February, $37 million in new funding. read more >
Walmart Challenges Amazon with Grocery Delivery
Shortly after Walmart opened its first Supercenters with food markets in 1988, top executives began to see groceries as the retail titan’s future bread and butter. Now Walmart is America’s biggest grocery seller, and food is becoming ammunition in the Bentonville company’s online duel with Amazon. read more >
Walmart, Amazon Begin SNAP Online Pilot Program
Amazon and Walmart on Thursday are kicking off a two-year pilot established by the government to allow low-income shoppers on government food assistance in New York to shop and pay for their groceries online. read more >
Looking to Boost Ad Business, Walmart Buys Startup Polymorph Labs
Walmart Inc. of Bentonville acquires the technology and assets of advertising startup Polymorph Labs of San Francisco. read more >
'Love, Little Rock' Gets PRWeek Affection
Millie Ward spurned Amazon in 2017, and now she’s getting some love for “Love, Little Rock.” read more >
Poppy Seed Overdose Prompts Lawsuit
The parents of a Fayetteville man who died of a morphine overdose after drinking tea he made from poppy seeds he ordered from Amazon are suing the online retailer and Sincerely Nuts Inc. of New York, which marketed and sold the 5-pound bag of poppy seeds. read more >
Let’s You and Him Fight (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
While I love banks and bankers, I confess to enjoying how irritated they get when the subject is credit unions. read more >
Could You Just Not Do That? (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
What Jeff Bezos called “the personal cost and embarrassment” might have been avoided had he simply not engaged in such risky online behavior. read more >
With Some Prime Help, An Entrepreneur Rises
With marketing visibility through Amazon.com and help from the online retailer’s order fulfillment service, Cindy Green’s Neurons Not Included has doubled sales nearly every year since 2012 read more >
In the Internet of Things, Many Things to Worry About
The convenience of computer networks and smartphones and data-sharing devices — the “internet of things” — can seem a godsend to those who appreciate the speed and ease of staying connected. For others, the all-inclusiveness of the IoT — eye-oh-tee, as most tech people say — means a constant battle for security. read more >
Walmart Makes Improvements to Third-Party Marketplace
Walmart says it will work with third-party sellers to make millions of items available for free two-day shipping on orders over $35. read more >
Risk of Streaming Fatigue as Walmart, AT&T, Disney Join Fray
As Walmart, AT&T and Disney join stalwarts such as Netflix in streaming video and creating original shows, a reality sets in: Not all will survive. read more >
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