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Walmart approaches $500 Billion in Revenue

Obviously, Walmart and not Amazon is the world’s largest and richest retailer. More importantly, Amazon will not approach Walmart’s revenues soon.

Therefore, Walmart can sink money into its online operations; automated stores, and new technology. As a result Walmart will probably be able to keep up with Amazon; and possibly block its entry into some markets.

The moral of the store is do not count Walmart out. The world’s largest retailer has the resources to maintain its dominance for decades to come despite Amazon’s explosive growth.

Grocery Wars

PayPal use growing faster than Apple and Google Pay, Microsoft Plans Automated Store

June 15, 2018June 15, 2018 daniel Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Apple Pay, cashier-less retail stores, Google Pay, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Microsoft Plans Automated Store, Microsoft to Develop Automated Store, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), PayPal use growing, PayPal use growing faster than Apple and Google Pay, Walmart (NYSE: WMT)

Mobile payment apps are still a tough sell to America’s consumers and merchants, Kount’s data indicates. The company that can change that paradigm will make a fortune.

That means more two thirds of American retailers or 71% still refuse to accept mobile wallets. Once again it sounds as if Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is losing the payment wars, and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) is not doing very well.

Grocery Wars

Is Ocado the Future of Groceries and does it Make Money?

June 1, 2018 daniel Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Is Ocado a Value Investment?, Is the Ocado Group Making Money?, Ocado, Ocado Group PLC (LON: OCDO), Ocado is a Future Value Investment in Groceries, Ocado operated Kroger warehouses, Ocado Smart Platform, The Ocado Group, The World’s Most Advanced Fulfillment Centers, Walmart (NYSE: WMT)

Ocado claims to process 260,000 orders a week with an order accuracy rate of 99% and an on-time delivery rate of 95%. The company claims to reduce costs with a 0.7% rate of product waste, which sounds hard to believe.

What’s truly interesting is that Ocado might be ahead of Amazon in its use of robots to move groceries. Ocado claims to have 1,100 robots at work in its newest Customer Fulfillment Center (CFC3) in Andover, Hampshire. Pictures online show Ocado robots working in refrigerated warehouses and giant freezers.
Those robots can supposedly pick and pack an order of 50 items in just five minutes. That is amazing because the CFC3 is stocked with 50,000 items, and the center itself is the size of three football fields.

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Is Target Really Profiting from Digital

May 31, 2018 daniel Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) vast inventory, anti-Amazon, convenient one-click shopping, How Target/Shipt can become the anti-Amazon, Is Target Making Money?, Kroger (NYSE: KR)/Instacart, Lidl USA, Shipt, Target (NYSE: TGT), Target/Shipt, the Grocery Delivery Wars, the Shipt ecosystem, Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Who Loses from the Grocery Delivery Wars, Why is Target doing so well?

Teaming up with high-end grocers like Lidl and Trader Joe’s for Shipt delivery is a smart move for Target. Other logical moves will to add brands like CVS, Walgreens, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Rite Aid, Albertsons, Nordstrom, Aldi, Trader Joes, Safeway, Publix, and Best Buy to the Shipt ecosystem.

More importantly, Target is well positioned to cash in on today’s retail environment and the transition from brick and mortar to delivery. If you want to profit from the growth of grocery delivery, Target is one of your best bets.

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Walmart to End Uber and Lyft Delivery, Uber Rush Shutting Down

May 10, 2018 daniel Instacart, Kroger (NYSE: KR), Lyft and Uber, Prime Now grocery delivery f, Shipt, Uber Kroger Delivery Ends too, Uber Rush Shutting Down, Uber Rush to Shut Down, Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Walmart to End Uber and Lyft Delivery

The future of delivery will be specialist delivery firms such as Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB) and Instacart that concentrate on one kind of order such as groceries or hot meals. One-size fits all delivery such as that promoted by Uber Rush appears to be a flop.

Other delivery services will take the place of Uber and Lyft, and customer service should not be affected, Blakeman said. Walmart owns the same-day delivery service Parcel and is working with some other delivery services including Deliv and Google Express. Walmart is also working with Postmates and DoorDash, Reuters reported.

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Whole Foods and Walmart Expand Online Grocery Delivery

April 11, 2018 daniel Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Bodon Curry Annunziato et al. v. Domino's Pizza, Domino’s (NYSE: DPZ), free Whole Foods delivery, FRESHCAR, grocery delivery wars, Is Fast Grocery Delivery Viable, Kroger (NYSE: KR), Postmates, Prime Now, Prime Now app, Prime Now Delivery, Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, This Lawsuit Might Doom Same-Day Grocery Delivery, Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Walmart Grocery App, Weinhaus & Potashnick, Whole Foods and Walmart Expand Online Grocery Delivery, Whole Foods Delivery, Whole Foods Offers Grocery Delivery in Southern California

The grocery delivery wars are heating up fast. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) have expanded their same-day efforts

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Walmart to Use Tencent Holdings’ WeChat Pay

March 28, 2018March 28, 2018 daniel Alibaba (NYSE: BABA), Alipay, Chase Pay, for Ant Financial, Tencent Holdings (HKG: 0700), Walmart, Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Walmart Pay, Walmart to Use Tencent Holdings’ WeChat Pay, Walmart WeChat Pay, WeChat Launches SMS shopping Platform, WeChat Pay, WeShop, Will WeChat Pay Join Walmart Pay?

News stories did not say whether WeChat Pay will be integrated with Walmart’s QR-code based payment app Walmart Pay. Walmart Pay is one of the fastest growing payment solutions in the United States.

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Kroger and Instacart rolling out Online Grocery Delivery Nationwide

March 20, 2018 daniel Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST), grocery-shopping service Shipt, Kroger (NYSE: KR), Kroger (NYSE: KR) is rolling out online grocery through Instacart nationwide., Kroger and Instacart, Kroger and Instacart rolling out Online Grocery Delivery Nationwide, Shipt, Target and Walmart also offering Grocery Delivery, The grocery delivery van, Walmart (NYSE: WMT)

One obvious possibility here is that Kroger is planning to buy Instacart. Such an acquisition is not farfetched; Kroger just sold its convenience stores for $2.1 billion which could finance an Instacart purchase. Target (NYSE: TGT); one of Kroger’s biggest competitors, has bought the shopping service Shipt and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has plans to offer grocery delivery in 100 cities by the end of 2018.

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Will SuperValu Survive and Should Amazon buy it?

March 16, 2018 daniel Kroger (NYSE: KR), Should Amazon have bought Supervalu instead of Whole Foods?, Supervalu, SuperValu’s struggles, Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Why Amazon needs SuperValu, Will Amazon Make Money at Whole Foods?, Will SuperValu Survive and Should Amazon buy it?, Would Amazon Buy Safeway?

An interesting question here is should Amazon have bought Supervalu instead of Whole Foods? After all, SuperValu is a discounter like Amazon, and it services a general mass market rather than a select upper-class clientele.

SuperValu’s stable of private label grocery brands might have been a better fit for Amazon than Whole Foods’ line up. Grub Street reported that Whole Foods’ suppliers are in revolt against Amazon. That provides an opening for Kroger (NYSE: KR) or Walmart (NYSE: WMT) to poach some of Whole Foods’ suppliers.

An advantage that SuperValu would have brought to Amazon is a lineup of products directed at average middle and working-class customers the bulk of the consumer base. Another is a lot experience in the supermarket and grocery sphere and established stores in large metropolitan markets.

Grocery Wars

Walmart wants to bring Grocery Delivery to 40% of Americans

March 15, 2018 daniel All-Out Grocery Delivery War, All-Out Grocery Delivery War Breaking Out, Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google Shopping Express, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Amazon’s acquisition of a traditional grocer like Safeway or Winn-Dixie, Deliv, Grocery Delivery War, GrubHub (NYSE: GRUB), InstatCart, Kroger (NYSE: KR), Kroger Instacart, Shipt, Target (NYSE: TGT), Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Walmart Grocery Delivery, Walmart wants to bring Grocery Delivery to 40% of Americans, Walmart Wants to Bring Personal Shoppers to the Masses

Likely responses to Walmart’s offensive might be Amazon’s acquisition of a traditional grocer like Safeway or Winn-Dixie, or Amazon or Target partnering with traditional grocers such as Publix. Kroger might respond by buying InstaCart and joining Google Shopping Express.

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