Walmart – Blue Sky Retail Support http://www.blueskyretail.com Uniting Product, Sales and Support For Suppliers. Help for your Walmart Retail Link, Sams sales and business planning needs. Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:21:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 Businesses Head to Bentonville, Ark. for a Shot at the American Dream http://www.blueskyretail.com/2018/06/businesses-head-to-bentonville-ark-for-a-shot-at-the-american-dream/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:17:08 +0000 http://www.blueskyretail.com/?p=978 On June 13, Walmart’s Home Office will be buzzing with entrepreneurs from 46 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia ready to pitch their U.S.-made products. For its fifth annual Open Call, Walmart invited more than 450 businesses to meet one-on-one with buyers for a chance to get their products on store shelves and in the hands of millions of customers.

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Walmart offers employees new perk: Cheap access to college http://www.blueskyretail.com/2018/05/walmart-offers-employees-new-perk-cheap-access-to-college/ Thu, 31 May 2018 15:38:03 +0000 http://www.blueskyretail.com/?p=964 Walmart is offering its employees a new perk: affordable access to a college degree.

America’s largest private employer, which in the past has helped its workers get their high school or equivalency degree, hopes the new benefit will help it recruit and retain higher quality entry-level employees in a tight U.S. labor market.

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Walmart Acquires Adchemy – Via Business Insider http://www.blueskyretail.com/2014/05/walmart-acquires-adchemy-via-business-insider/ Thu, 08 May 2014 16:43:21 +0000 http://www.blueskyretail.com/?p=806 @WalmartLabs has acquired Adchemy, the slightly mysterious Foster City, Calif., adtech company that specializes in “semantic search.”  In a related Wall Street Journal article, for the first time in a decade, Wal-MartWMT +1.04%’s Web sales grew faster than Amazon’s.  Global Internet sales at Wal-Mart, which remained ranked as the fourth largest online seller by Internet Retailer, rose by 30% to $10 billion last year, topping Amazon’s 20% sales growth during the same period.

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Walmart Q4 Earnings Slip But Small Stores Leap Forward | HomeWorldBusiness.com http://www.blueskyretail.com/2014/02/walmart-q4-earnings-slip-but-small-stores-leap-forward-homeworldbusiness-com/ Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:21:25 +0000 http://www.blueskyretail.com/?p=801 As it posted a fourth quarter earnings shortfall, Wal-Mart, Inc. also announced that it would accelerate its small store growth plan.

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Wal-Mart Q4 Earnings May Fall Short Of Estimates | HomeWorldBusiness.com http://www.blueskyretail.com/2014/02/wal-mart-q4-earnings-may-fall-short-of-estimates-homeworldbusiness-com-2/ Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:30:47 +0000 http://www.blueskyretail.com/?p=778 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced that its earnings for the fourth quarter and full year may come in below guidance.

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Wal-Mart Q4 Earnings May Fall Short Of Estimates | HomeWorldBusiness.com http://www.blueskyretail.com/2014/02/wal-mart-q4-earnings-may-fall-short-of-estimates-homeworldbusiness-com/ Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:24:22 +0000 http://www.blueskyretail.com/?p=772 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced that its earnings for the fourth quarter and full year may come in below guidance.

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Kid You Not: The Very Serious Business of Building The Fastest-Growing Company in America | Inc. 5000 http://www.blueskyretail.com/2014/02/kid-you-not-the-very-serious-business-of-building-the-fastest-growing-company-in-america-inc-5000/ Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:06:01 +0000 http://www.blueskyretail.com/?p=765 Fuhu makes a cute soft-sided tablet for children. But cuteness isn’t what produced three-year growth of 42,148 percent.

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Walmart Announces $10 Million Fund to Spur Innovation and Support U.S. Manufacturing – MPB http://www.blueskyretail.com/2014/01/walmart-announces-10-million-fund-to-spur-innovation-and-support-u-s-manufacturing-mpb/ Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:55:47 +0000 http://www.blueskyretail.com/?p=740

This past Thursday, Januaru 23, 2014, Walmart U.S. President and CEO Bill Simon joined 280 of the nation’s mayors in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Conference of Mayors Meeting to announce a new fund for innovation in American manufacturing and a new supplier commitment to bring production of bikes and jobs to South Carolina.

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Wal-Mart Aims To Match Amazon’s Service Offerings – WSJ.com http://www.blueskyretail.com/2014/01/wal-mart-aims-to-match-amazons-service-offerings-wsj-com/ Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:46:58 +0000 http://www.blueskyretail.com/?p=738 The head of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s e-commerce efforts predicted that the retailer would be able to match the service offerings of competitor Amazon.com Inc. within two years. In a private interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wal-Mart global e-commerce CEO Neil Ashe said that the company was continuing to build out new warehouses across the country used to distribute online orders. The huge U.S. retailer…

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Sam’s Club lays off 2% or 2,300 workers http://www.blueskyretail.com/2014/01/sams-club-lays-off-2-or-2300-workers/ Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:39:22 +0000 http://www.blueskyretail.com/?p=731 A little less than half of the employees affected are assistant managers, according to Sam’s Club spokesman Bill Durling.   Report from CNN Money.

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