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NewsWalmart launches major push to recruit UK suppliers for e-commerce marketplace
Walmart has established a new seller office in London as part of a major push to recruit UK food and drink suppliers for its e-commerce marketplaces across the Americas
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NewsMedia Bites 8 July: Amazon Prime Day, Walmart, Nestlé board troubles
Amazon Prime Day has arrived once again.
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NewsMedia Bites 5 June: free school meals, mental health, AI
Free school meals are to be extended to 500,000 more children, the government has said
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NewsMedia Bites 23 May: Matthew Barnes, M&S cyberattack, Klarna
The shock departure of Tesco UK CEO Matthew Barnes is the top story in the nationals
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NewsJamie Oliver rolls out retail range in North America
Six ambient pouches will be stocked in 325 Walmart stores from March
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NewsAsda claims Walmart’s full support as IT extraction deadline and fines loom
When will Asda’s ‘Project Future’ – dubbed Europe’s largest systems implementation programme – complete?
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NewsAsda brings in former Tesco home grocery boss Barney Burgess
The supermarket said Burgess would take up the role on an interim basis until the arrival of David Devany, who is due to join the business next year from Iceland
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NewsAsda struggles ‘hurt my heart’ says former Walmart international boss Judith McKenna
McKenna spent 17 years at Asda, and led the £6.8bn majority sale to the Issa brothers and TDR
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Comment & OpinionWill an Asda reset reclaim worker and shopper affections?
It is a dramatic but necessary move by Asda, with the pressure mounting on Mohsin Issa and his TDR Capital backers
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NewsAsda rolls out new online ‘Store Assist’ picking technology
Asda said the solution was already “proving popular” with staff – 26,000 of whom had now been trained on 10,000 updated devices
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NewsAsda apologises for underpaying thousands of workers
The change in the payment system is part of Asda’s move from Walmart’s legacy IT platform to its own purpose-built one
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NewsMedia Bites 3 November: Sainsbury’s, Amazon, Beyond Meat, Heineken
Amazon has come under fire from the Federal Trade Commission regulator in the US
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Analysis & FeaturesCan Tesco make a marketplace work second time around?
With lessons learned since the failure of Tesco Direct – and the model better proven – should the likes of Amazon and Ocado be worried?
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NewsAsda taps Tata for post-Walmart digital overhaul
TCS described the work as a ‘massive enterprise reinvention’
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NewsAsda beefs up tech team with M&S hire Rob Barnes
Barnes will join the supermarket early next year as delivery director to oversee the development of its new technology strategy and separation from Walmart
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NewsWalmart International’s CEO Judith McKenna to retire
She will be replaced by Kath McLay, who currently leads Sam’s Club, Walmart’s US-based member-only wholesale business
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Comment & OpinionAsda is fighting fit, but has it unleashed a sustainable growth strategy?
In the latter days of its time under Walmart, Asda all too often resembled a punch drunk heavyweight boxer
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Comment & OpinionWalmart’s targeted radio ads signal the future of in-store media
The Walmart Radio Network marks a new frontier in the development of the physical store as a multifaceted retail media asset, says Miya Knights, co-author of Amazon and Omnichannel Retail
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NewsAsda taps Publicis Sapient for post-Walmart e-commerce platform
The platform will be delivered by April 2024, as part of a “hugely ambitious” programme, Publicis Sapient said
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Analysis & FeaturesWill Walmart’s bet on micro fulfilment centres be the catalyst for further online automation?
MFC technology rollout has slowed. Will Walmart’s Alert Innovation acquisition break the inertia?