Walmart hosted merchants in Last Vegas on Wednesday at its first-ever Let’s Grow! Marketplace Seller Summit where it announced several new tools and services to help them grow on its marketplace. Like Amazon, Walmart offers fulfillment services (called WFS), and Read more
Walmart opened a new “high tech” fulfillment center at one of its stores, highlighting how the brick-and-mortar retailer differentiates itself from online-only marketplaces. Walmart Market Fulfillment Centers (MFC) are “modular warehouses built within, or added to, a store.” The new Read more
Many shoppers joined Amazon Prime for the free-shipping perk and stayed for the free video streaming service. Prime Video gave it something Walmart’s free-shipping membership program didn’t have – until now. Walmart is adding a major perk to the Walmart+ Read more
Walmart is offering an incentive to entice sellers to try its WFS fulfillment service, which it launched two years ago in February 2020. The company’s Chief Financial Officer Brett Biggs told Wall Street analysts last week that the expansion of Read more
Merchants who use Amazon’s FBA fulfillment service get an edge by having their listings feature the Prime badge. Those who list on Walmart can get a similar edge if they use third-party fulfillment services that have partnered with the retailer, Read more
Walmart announced a new test in which it will have employees drop off orders on their way home from work. Marc Lore, President and CEO of Walmart US eCommerce, said it could cut shipping costs and get packages to their Read more
Walmart is exploring offering a fulfillment program for third-party merchants on its marketplace, according to Internet Retailer. An executive made the revelation at the Shop.org conference in Dallas on Tuesday. NOTE: See update below. Tri Huynh, director of business development for Read more
Walmart opened up another large-scale ecommerce fulfillment center in October, this one in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s the third next-generation fulfillment center to open in the U.S. in as many months. In July, the retailer opened up a fulfillment center in Read more
