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Businesses Head to Bentonville, Ark. for a Shot at the American Dream

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 […]

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Walmart offers employees new perk: Cheap access to college

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. via Walmart offers […]

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Walmart Acquires Adchemy – Via Business Insider

@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, […]

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Walmart Q4 Earnings Slip But Small Stores Leap Forward | HomeWorldBusiness.com

As it posted a fourth quarter earnings shortfall, Wal-Mart, Inc. also announced that it would accelerate its small store growth plan. via Walmart Q4 Earnings Slip But Small Stores Leap Forward | HomeWorldBusiness.com.

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Wal-Mart Q4 Earnings May Fall Short Of Estimates | HomeWorldBusiness.com

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced that its earnings for the fourth quarter and full year may come in below guidance. Blue Sky Retail, LLC. – Specializing in Retail Link, administrative compliance, and sales support for Walmart and Sam’s Club vendors via Wal-Mart Q4 Earnings May Fall Short Of Estimates | HomeWorldBusiness.com.

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Wal-Mart Q4 Earnings May Fall Short Of Estimates | HomeWorldBusiness.com

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced that its earnings for the fourth quarter and full year may come in below guidance. Blue Sky Retail, LLC. – Specializing in Retail Link, administrative compliance, and sales support for Walmart and Sam’s Club vendors via Wal-Mart Q4 Earnings May Fall Short Of Estimates | HomeWorldBusiness.com.

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Kid You Not: The Very Serious Business of Building The Fastest-Growing Company in America | Inc. 5000

Fuhu makes a cute soft-sided tablet for children. But cuteness isn’t what produced three-year growth of 42,148 percent. Blue Sky Retail, LLC. – Specializing in Retail Link, administrative compliance, and sales support for Walmart and Sam’s Club vendors via Kid You Not: The Very Serious Business of Building The Fastest-Growing Company in America | Inc. […]

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Walmart Announces $10 Million Fund to Spur Innovation and Support U.S. Manufacturing – MPB

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. Blue […]

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Wal-Mart Aims To Match Amazon’s Service Offerings – WSJ.com

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 […]

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Sam’s Club lays off 2% or 2,300 workers

A little less than half of the employees affected are assistant managers, according to Sam’s Club spokesman Bill Durling.   Report from CNN Money. Blue Sky Retail, LLC. – Specializing in Retail Link, administrative compliance, and sales support for Walmart and Sam’s Club vendors via Sam’s Club lays off 2% of workers – Jan. 24, 2014.

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