Walmart experiments with AI to enhance customers' shopping experiencesIn a Tuesday keynote at trade show CES in Las Vegas, the nation's largest retailer announced that it would be expanding its drone delivery ...
10 Jan, 2024, 08.26 AM IST
Walmart to upgrade 1,400 stores with $9 billion investmentWalmart is investing over $9 billion to modernize and upgrade its U.S. stores over a two-year period. The enhancements include improved sto...
30 Oct, 2023, 10.12 PM IST
Mojocare’s plan for its remaining capital; Mamaearth's fresh global pushThe board of troubled health and wellness products startup Mojocare has taken a call to return the remaining capital to investors. Details ...
17 Oct, 2023, 07.50 AM IST
Walmart changes pay and titles for corporate staffWalmart corporate staff are getting new titles and pay packages in the coming weeks to manage labor costs and simplify the structure of the...
01 Oct, 2023, 12.27 AM IST
Amazon is ubiquitous. But it isn't invincible anymoreThis year saw the world’s largest e-commerce company at one point lose a trillion dollars in market value as growth in online shopping slow...
20 Dec, 2022, 09.36 AM IST
Tech layoffs in the US send Indian H-1B holders scrambling to find new jobsGetting sacked during the holiday season is a blow to any worker. But for foreigners on temporary work visas, the challenges go far beyond ...
11 Dec, 2022, 10.41 AM IST
Consumers and companies are buying in on paying laterThe option to buy now and pay later has soared in popularity, accelerating last year as consumers bought almost everything online at the st...
04 Sep, 2021, 10.06 AM IST
Walmart plans big push to challenge Amazon on advertisingWalmart has expanded its advertising business after years of stuttering progress, even as a deal to buy a 7.5% stake in video-sharing app T...
28 Jan, 2021, 07.11 PM IST
Amid pandemic, earlier promotions, Black Friday takes new shapeMost major retailers closed on Thanksgiving Day this year in a nod to the stress endured by their workers during a global health pandemic.
27 Nov, 2020, 07.15 PM IST
Tech startups test new models for a foothold in grocery retailOver half a dozen companies are taking over kirana stores to control branding, merchandising and invoicing. What helps is that mom-and-pop ...
10 Feb, 2020, 08.25 AM IST
Open Sesame: A look into Alibaba’s vision for the futureJack Ma’s New Retail is the driving force behind the rising trend of digitising supermarkets, hospitality, and retail stores.
26 Sep, 2019, 09.57 AM IST
Wanted: CEO for Walmart 'Stealth Company' that doesn't exist yetThe world’s largest retailer has posted an opening for a “CEO, Stealth Company” who would lead the latest startup housed inside its technol...
19 Jan, 2019, 11.47 AM IST
Walmart's built a ragtag alliance of tech firms to battle AmazonFear of Jeff Bezos helps explain why Walmart has in recent years forged alliances with Google, Microsoft, China’s JD.com and other tech pla...
08 Aug, 2018, 11.11 AM IST
The real reason Wal-Mart is going after AmazonWal-Mart's online sales are a tiny fraction of the size of Amazon's, even though Wal-Mart is five times bigger - and a lot older- than Amaz...
20 Jul, 2015, 12.01 PM IST