Walmart is trying to make it easier to pick up online grocery orders.
Source: www.businessinsider.com
There is no cost for picking up groceries, but customers must spend at least $30 per order to use the service. The kiosk is open 24/7 and can to fulfill hundreds of customer orders in a single day, according to Walmart spokesman Scott Markley.
Walmart’s 200 “Walmart Academy” training centers are all planning to incorporate virtual reality by the end of 2017, after an earlier pilot program. The limited curriculum is being produce
Source: www.theverge.com
Many articles have been written this past week on automation eliminating more than seven million retail jobs. The source study is misleading and incorrect.
Source: www.forbes.com
‘There is really strong overlap between where our associates are already heading after work and where those packages need to go,’ a company spokesman said.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Seems like a situation that employees could be taken advantage of. And then again, does Walmart do background checks on employees I wonder.
Walmart is also expanding its grocery pickup program, adding the service to up to 600 locations this year. Last year, CEO Doug McMillon credited the “growth of pick-up in stores and clubs” with helping to drive e-commerce revenues.Click here to edit the content
Source: www.retailwire.com
Women and smaller cities will lose the most retail jobs to robots and online sales.
Source: fortune.com
The macroeconomic challenges that have hurt the restaurant industry in the last year are reflected in the 2017 FORBES Global 2000: some of the biggest restaurant names on the list — including McDonald’s and Yum! Brands — find themselves sitting at lower rankings than they did just one year ago.
Source: www.forbes.com
McDonald’s is the top-ranked restaurant company on the Global 2000; it came in at #215 on the overall list, down from #189 in 2016 and sitting lower than the likes of AflacAFL -0.24%, Lowe’sLOW -0.07% and Christian Diornull +0%. The burger giant has seen heightened competition from the fast-casual sector (i.e, chains like Shake Shack, Chipotle, Panera Bread), but its all-day breakfast gambit has been a boon to earnings, and Wall Street analysts seem to think that the company has even sunnier days ahead.
Amazon (AMZN) has a history of disrupting major industries experiencing a paradigm shift, and this time AMZN is taking on pharmaceuticals.
Source: investorplace.com
The company is looking to move into the pharmacy business now. It has already begun testing a prototype in Japan, and it is starting to hire more staff and leadership for the program. AMZN recently started selling medical supplies and equipment in the U.S., so this next step — an Amazon pharmacy business — makes perfect sense.
