With Scandit, Walmart aims to take in-store assistance to the next level Americas Intelligent software provider Scandit has just announced a renewal of a strategic partnership with Walmart in the USA. Samuel Mueller, C.E.O. of the Swiss unicorn, talked to mind Retail about the technological developments planned to enhance a customer experience at the world's leading retailer, which reports 18% of online sales.
With stablecoins, Walmart, Amazon, and Shopify want to break free from traditional banking channels Americas With the Genius Act recently passed in the U.S.A., regulating stablecoins for the first time, two retail giants are planning to issue their own corporate cryptocurrencies, or stablecoins. Their goal is to bypass traditional payment systems, avoid interchange fees, and speed up payment processing.
data [Food Retail Barometer 2024] The financial health of the world’s 10 largest food retailers in 7 charts Now in a fourth edition, our annual barometer presents the financial performance of the world's 10 largest food retailers from 2017 to 2024: Walmart, Costco, Kroger, Seven & I, Target, Ahold-Delhaize, Carrefour, Albertsons, Tesco and Aeon. With the exception of 3 players, most retailers failed to save their margins last year. In terms of e-commerce, all retailers made progress, with some even breaking through the 18% sales share glass ceiling.
In a week, Klarna signs with Walmart and files IPO application at NYSE Americas On March 17, Klarna announced an exclusive partnership with Walmart (2024 turnover: US$681 billion, up by 5.6%) in collaboration with the OnePay app.…
Walmart leaves Japan by selling Seiyu for US$2.5 billion Asia On March 5, 2025, the American fund KKR and Walmart (turnover 2024 of US$681 billion, up by 5.6% at constant rates) announced the sale of the Japanese grocery retailer Seiyu,…
Despite sales up 6.2% in Q3, Walmart innovates to reduce store theft Americas Driven by more profitable e-commerce and healthy like-for-like growth, Walmart was in brilliant health in Q3. While the group struggles to protect against theft, it launched innovations to ensure that this does not penalise a customer experience.
Carrefour takes a step back, Wal-Mart accelerates Asia In China, the race for ultra-fast delivery has defeated Carrefour. This pressure continues to disrupt across the entire landscape of large food retailers. Carrefour has been selling into China for 25 years, and spent more than one year working with Tencent on digital transformation. However, in late June 2019, Carrefour announced a transfer of 80% of Chinese operations (210 hypermarkets and 24 convenience stores) to the non-food distributor Suning.com.…
