Walmart’s ecommerce sales grew 23 percent in the fourth quarter 2017. Despite this, its stock dropped as analysts expected more. Last month the Department of Commerce announced its estimate of U.S. retail ecommerce sales for the fourth quarter of 2017. The Department issues two sets of figures. One is seasonally adjusted, and one is not. […]
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Sam Walton was one of the great American bootstrappers. The founder of Walmart raised an icon of American commerce on a foundation of determination and smarts. Princeton professor Derek Lidow is the first researcher granted access to the Walmart Museum’s archives, whose wealth of documents, memorabilia, and oral history videos he draws on for his
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“Ecommerce Briefs” is my occasional series on news and developments from online merchants. In this installment, I’ll decipher Amazon’s Q2 2017 financial results and its recently-announced returns policy for certain marketplace sellers. I’ll also address Walmart’s expansion of its successful in-store pickup program. Amazon After all the recent news about Amazon’s successes and expansion — 2017
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