Wal-Mart

Walmart will now allow its shoppers to order their groceries by voice through Google’s smart home assistant, its latest attempt to challenge Amazon’s growing dominance.   Starting this month, shoppers can add items directly to their Walmart grocery cart, according to a company blog post on Tuesday. Walmart Inc. sa...

Over the next five years, online grocery sales are expected to more than quadruple.  More web-based options will become available between now and 2023, and more consumers are expected to give it a try.  The prediction comes from a new forecast by market-research firm Packaged Facts.  Over the past fiv...

A consumer traffic analysis says nearly a quarter of Whole Foods new customers are coming from Wal-Mart.  Specifically, 24% of the new customers streaming to Whole Foods following the Amazon purchase of the grocery chain were Wal-Mart shoppers, while 16% are from Kroger and 15% from Costco.  ...

A group of companies in the global food chain announced a partnership with IBM intended to give consumers more confidence in the global food system.  The group includes companies like Walmart, Nestle, Tyson Foods, and many others.  They’ll work with IBM to find areas in the global supply food chain that can benefit from the IBM program Blockchain.   Accord...

A new report shows that Dean Foods Company is struggling amid slowing milk sales and rising costs.  The news comes as Dean’s largest customer, Wal-Mart Stores, is preparing to open its own milk processing plant, reducing its reliance on Dean.  The Texa...

Walmart has launched a sustainability platform aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and is calling on its supply chain to join the initiative.  Dubbed Project Gigaton, the initiative will provide an emissions reduction toolkit to a broad network of suppliers seeking to eliminate one gigaton of emissions, focusing on areas such as manufacturing, materials and use of products by 2030.  ... Rea

The Dairy Farmers of Washington will work with local businesses to help a Sunnyside Family that recently lost their daughter.  DFW along with Walmart and the Sunnyside Police Department will collect donations Saturday to benefit the family of Isabella Orozco.  Th...

The world’s largest retail chain will transition to cage-free eggs by 2025.  Bloomberg reports Wal-Mart and its Sam’s Club warehouse chain will require that its egg suppliers adopt United Egg Producers rules or an equivalent set of standards for cage-free housing.  The company sa...