Walmart

With a fast-growing $1.5 trillion grocery market, China is the ultimate prize for Wal-Mart, according to an Associated Press report. But the retailer will have to adapt to succeed in what it is a very different marketplace than America.

“If the Arkansas-based company wants to win over foreign consumers, it has to shed some of its American ways, and cater to very different customs and conventions that are fast changing,” the report said.

Amazon.com is starting to appear like the ‘Teflon e-tailer.”  

Amazon.com is starting to appear like the ‘Teflon e-tailer.”   According to eMarketer data, Amazon captured $79.3 billion in U.S. e-commerce sales between April 2015 and April 2016, growing 13% year-over-year. Its next-closest rival, Walmart, took in just $13.5 billion online in that period. However, Amazon may not be invincible.    Here are three retailers who could pose a real challenge to Amazon’s e-commerce dominance:   

Criminals have reportedly been targeting some Walmart stores with credit card skimming devices illicitly placed on POS terminals.

According to the Krebs on Security blog, the skimmers are designed to overlay legitimate self-payment card readers manufactured by Ingenico and have been found at Walmart locations in Fredericksburg, Virginia and Fort Wright, Kentucky.
 

Cameron Geiger, senior VP, Walmart technology, has been appointed to the GS1 U.S. board of governors.

He will help guide the GS1 U.S. strategy for driving adoption and usage of GS1 standards within the retail industry. GS1 standards are used to uniquely identify products, services and locations globally.

The store is making a comeback. Even online pure plays are laying down bricks and mortar, setting up “shop-in-shop” stores and large flagships to keep pace in the multichannel world.
 

Asda, the U.K. subsidiary of Walmart, wants customers to have unencumbered access to desired products.
 
On the front end, this has meant creating a click and collect service called toyou. On the back end, Asda enables toyou with a seamless fulfillment infrastructure based on Manhattan Associates technology.
 

Supermarkets and fast-casual restaurant brands took the top positions in an annual ranking of customer experience.   Publix, Chick-fil-A, and H-E-B earned top three positions in Temkin Group’s 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings, a cross-industry benchmark of customer experience.     Publix had a score of 84%, closely followed by Chick-fil-A and H-E-B, which both scored 83% in the seventh annual rating.