National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
... incentives such as premium merchandising.67The same year, Walmart announced a similar program for both Walmart and Sam’s Club stores.68 Suppliers of ... called The Wercs, which holds that information private. Walmart has identified a list of “priority chemicals” and ... on product packaging starting in January 2018.68However, Walmart has no plans to disclose which chemicals are on either list, according to Rob Kaplan, Walmart’s director of product sustainability, who says protecting ... Several experts consulted for this article acknowledged “the Walmart effect” as a factor driving manufacturers to change. ...
Tópico(s): Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
2015 - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | Environmental Health Perspectives
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
... Health and Health Networks, October 1, 2013Google Scholar Walmart has 100 retail clinics (Clinic at Walmart) across the country, mostly in rural areas. The ... continuing care elsewhere.23Abrams R. In ambitious bid, Walmart seeks foothold in primary care services. Available at: ... com/2014/08/08/business/in-ambitious-bid-walmart-seeks-foothold-in-primary-care-services.html?_r=0. Accessed August 10, 2014.Google Scholar Walmart recently opened 5 primary care clinics (Walmart Care Clinics) in South Carolina and Texas. Walmart ...
Tópico(s): Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
2015 - Elsevier BV | The American Journal of Medicine
Irma Hunt, Allison D. Watts, Sarah Bryant,
Purpose Walmart achieved extraordinary success and growth in its home country before embarking on a strategy of international expansion. ... than ten years after initial entry. In 2016, Walmart announced the closure of 269 stores worldwide. Although most Walmart stores are now outside the USA, the performance of these stores lag their US counterparts. Walmart has not been able to simply export its “ ... various regions around the world. Design/methodology/approach Walmart’s successes and missteps in each country are ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
2018 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Journal of Business Strategy
Richard Volpe, Michael A. Boland,
... purpose is to review the economic impacts of Walmart's disruption of the food retailing industry. This ... research findings related to the economic impacts of Walmart's entry into, and subsequent domination of, food ... globally. The findings suggest five broad generalizations: ( a) Walmart's physical growth in the United States has ... international presence, and sales per square foot; ( b) Walmart's entry and presence are associated with lower food prices for households; ( c) Walmart has considerable negative impacts on large competitors, particularly ...
Tópico(s): Merger and Competition Analysis
2022 - Annual Reviews | Annual Review of Resource Economics
... labor actions and campaigns targeting the retail giant Walmart. This case study of the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart) represents an initial attempt to map the network ... action to examine the organizational structure of OUR Walmart. I conducted semi-structured interviews with a dozen union representatives, OUR Walmart members, and current and former Walmart employees. My intention is to (1) delineate the ... and affordances of the network structure of OUR Walmart for workers engaged in struggles for better working ...
Tópico(s): Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism
2015 - Routledge | Information Communication & Society
David Merriman, Joseph Persky, Julie Davis, Ron Baiman,
... study, the first on the impact of a WalMart in a large city, draws on three annual ... a four-mile radius of a new Chicago WalMart. It shows that the probability of going out ... all directions. Using this relationship, we estimate that WalMart’s opening resulted in the loss of approximately ... jobs in nearby neighborhoods. This loss about equals WalMart’s own employment in the area. Our analysis ... was no net increase in retail sales in WalMart’s own and surrounding zip codes. Overall, these results support the contention that large-city WalMarts, like those in small towns, absorb retail sales ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
2012 - SAGE Publishing | Economic Development Quarterly
Lindsey Smith Taillie, Shu Wen Ng, Barry M. Popkin,
... of PFPs from these retailers, particularly PFPs from Walmart, the largest U.S. grocer. Methods A data ... nutrient densities and key food groups purchased at Walmart and other FRCs from 2000 to 2013, and ... and sodium density (–33 mg/100 g) of Walmart PFPs, coupled with decreases in percentage volume purchased ... FRCs had a more favorable nutritional profile than Walmart PFPs in 2000, but demonstrated smaller shifts over time. Disparities in the nutritional profile of Walmart PFPs by race/ethnicity but not by income ...
Tópico(s): Organic Food and Agriculture
2015 - Elsevier BV | American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Charles Courtemanche, Art Carden,
... We examine this hypothesis in the context of Walmart Supercenters, whose advancements in retail logistics have translated ... the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System matched with Walmart Supercenter entry dates and locations, we examine the ... and obesity. We account for the endogeneity of Walmart Supercenter locations with an instrumental variables approach that ... the unique geographical pattern of Supercenter expansion around Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. An additional Supercenter ...
Tópico(s): Urban Transport and Accessibility
2010 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Urban Economics
Ming‐Ling Chuang, James J. Donegan, Michele W. Ganon, KAN Wei,
... describe the challenges faced by two retail giants, Walmart and Carrefour, as they attempt to replicate in ... methodology/approach This is a comparative study of Walmart's and Carrefour's ventures into the Chinese ... Chinese nationals engaged in supplying these firms. Findings Walmart and Carrefour have so far failed to extend their oligopolistic dominance to the Chinese market. Walmart has stressed its well‐known standardization of operations, ... localization and includes information provided by three of Walmart's and Carrefour's local Chinese suppliers.
Tópico(s): Business Strategy and Innovation
2011 - | Cross Cultural Management An International Journal
Bryan R. Roberts, Natalie Berg,
Chapter - 01: Is Walmart the best-positioned retailer on the globe? Chapter - 02: Rise of consumerism Chapter - 03: House of (Walmart) brands Chapter - 04: Don't aggravate the customer ... 05: It's an EDLP world Chapter - 06: Walmart and its suppliers Chapter - 07: Removing the margin- ... a multi-channel future Chapter - 11: Going global: Walmart's international retail leadership Chapter - 12: Tomorrow's Walmart
Tópico(s): Business Strategy and Innovation
2012 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
Georgeanne M. Artz, Kenneth E. Stone,
Ken Stone conducted the first study of WalMart stores’ economic impact in Iowa in 1988. Since then, research on WalMart’s impacts has exploded. Recent studies employ sophisticated statistical techniques to ... advances to help account for the effects of WalMart’s strategic location decisions on estimated retail sales ... is consistent with previous studies, we find that WalMart’s entry into smaller trade centers in Iowa ... while others saw declines in sales per capita. WalMart’s presence helped stabilize or even expand the ...
Tópico(s): Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
2012 - SAGE Publishing | Economic Development Quarterly
Hoon Lee, Glen Biglaiser, Joseph L. Staats,
... of governance.9 In the case of Japan, Walmart initially acquired a 6.1% stake in Seiyu, ... Zambia. In Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa, Walmart acquired existing firms, but it took small stakes, ... as it did in the M&A countries. Walmart operated with other actors in making decisions, and ... restrictions on M&As, which likely explains why Walmart entered India using a JV strategy.12 Some ... rents in the host country. The case of Walmart is illustrative, as the firm could have chosen ... of the poorest countries in the world. Instead, Walmart opted for JVs in poorer countries, including El ...
Tópico(s): Corporate Finance and Governance
2014 - Taylor & Francis | International Interactions
Walmart often faces strong local opposition when trying to build a new store. One common complaint is that Walmart lowers nearby housing prices. In this study we ... over one million housing transactions located near 159 Walmarts that opened between 2000 and 2006 to test if the opening of a Walmart lowers housing prices. Using a difference-in-differences specification, our estimates suggest that a new Walmart store actually increases housing prices by between 2% ...
Tópico(s): Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
2014 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Urban Economics
... presents an empirical study of the impact of Walmart supercenter conversion on consumer shopping behavior. By using a difference-in-difference estimator, we find that Walmart gains 41% in weekly revenue from the conversion. ... by making fewer overall trips and increasing their Walmart basket sizes. In addition, we find that overall revenue gains for Walmart from conversion outweigh the small cannibalization loss at the existing Walmart supercenters located farther away. Finally, from category-level ...
Tópico(s): Digital Platforms and Economics
2015 - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | Management Science
Katrijn Gielens, Inge Geyskens, Barbara Deleersnyder, Max Nohe,
... fears are justified by studying the impact of Walmart's sustainability mandate on its suppliers’ (short-term) ... we relate suppliers’ short-term abnormal returns to Walmart's appropriation power and explore whether and to ... its marketing and operational characteristics, respectively, can counteract Walmart's appropriation attempts. We find that the supplier' ... it with the countervailing power needed to resist Walmart's appropriation attempts. In contrast, cost-efficient suppliers ... heavily in R&D have more difficulty withstanding Walmart's squeeze attempts.
Tópico(s): Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
2017 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Marketing
... response to food contamination scandals worldwide, retail giant Walmart is tackling food safety in the supply chain using blockchain technology. In 2016, it established the Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center in Beijing and plans ... IBM’s blockchain solution based on Hyperledger Fabric, Walmart has successfully completed two blockchain pilots: pork in ... IBM, 2017). With a farm-to-table approach, Walmart’s blockchain solution reduced time for tracking mango ... 2.2 seconds and promoted greater transparency across Walmart’s food supply chain (Yiannas, 2017). IBM called ...
Tópico(s): Food Supply Chain Traceability
2018 - | The Journal of British Blockchain Association
Walmart has long been the hardest of anti-union eggs to crack. In their new book, Adam ... understand the problems and possibilities associated with organizing Walmart workers. Using a rich blend of methods, the ... doll” (14), as couched within the story about Walmart workers is the story of the summer organizing ... to organize workers with the labor organization OUR Walmart and to interview Walmart workers for the project. Embedded within this story ...
Tópico(s): Labor Movements and Unions
2019 - Oxford University Press | Social Forces
Jorge Carlos Carpio-Aguilar, John Rincón-Moreno, María-Laura Franco-García,
... this scenario, one of the best practices of Walmart Inc. is the Project Gigaton. The objective of ... generation of one billion CO2 tons throughout the Walmart' supply chain. In order to demonstrate best practices ... to lead its suppliers towards CO2 reduction initiatives, Walmart Mexico as one of the main markets of ... strategy on its operations. The ZW strategy at Walmart is aimed to manage efficiently any type of ... waste management routes aimed to lessen even further Walmart Mexico's environmental footprint. Consequently, in this chapter, ...
Tópico(s): Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
2019 - Springer International Publishing | Greening of industry networks studies
Zsofia Mendly‐Zambo, Dennis Raphael, Alan Taman,
For decades critics have identified Walmart Canada's employment practices – characterized by inadequate wages with few benefits – as contributing to household food insecurity (HFI). Walmart Canada also opposes unionization drives which would result ... process. In a remarkable example of image management, Walmart Canada now brands itself as an important ally ... of this partnership that examines the contradictions between Walmart's operating culture and FBC's goal of ... conclude that by entering into a partnership with Walmart Canada and ignoring its own policy documents describing ...
Tópico(s): Employment and Welfare Studies
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Critical Public Health
Charles Courtemanche, Art Carden,
... We examine this hypothesis in the context of Walmart Supercenters, whose advancements in retail logistics have translated ... the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System matched with Walmart Supercenter entry dates and locations, we examine the ... and obesity. We account for the endogeneity of Walmart Supercenter locations with an instrumental variables approach that ... the unique geographical pattern of Supercenter expansion around Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. An additional Supercenter ...
Tópico(s): Urban Transport and Accessibility
2010 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... public audiences via the internet in Maersk and WalMart in order to examine the influence of national ... presentations of corporate social responsibility on Maersk and Walmart corporate web sites. Findings The consequences in corporate web site discourse about CSR in Maersk and WalMart are strikingly different. With respect to all three CSR agendas, the WalMart site includes a more detailed explanation of its ... in the USA and Denmark. Thus, even though WalMart is not necessarily more involved with CSR efforts ...
Tópico(s): Social Media and Politics
2007 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Corporate Communications An International Journal
Margot Meeks, Rachel J. C. Chen,
This article focuses on Walmart's recent setbacks and how those setbacks provide an expanded role for product sustainability in Walmart's business model. Walmart's recent struggles are discussed and brief examples ... green brands is one of the main reasons Walmart's sustainability index could revive the company.
Tópico(s): Environmental Sustainability in Business
2011 - Canadian Center of Science and Education | Journal of Sustainable Development
... Investor Relations: Wal‐Mart Corporate Profile.”. ⟨http://www.walmart.com/cservice/aw_index.gsp⟩ Accessed 10 Feb. ... Investor Relations: Wal‐Mart Corporate Profile.”. ⟨http://www.walmart.com/cservice/aw_index.gsp⟩ Accessed 10 Feb. ... Investor Relations: Wal‐Mart Corporate Profile.”. ⟨http://www.walmart.com/cservice/aw_index.gsp⟩ Accessed 10 Feb. ... Investor Relations: Wal‐Mart Corporate Profile.”. ⟨http://www.walmart.com/cservice/aw_index.gsp⟩ Accessed 10 Feb. ... Investor Relations: Wal‐Mart Corporate Profile.”. ⟨http://www.walmart.com/cservice/aw_index.gsp⟩ Accessed 10 Feb. ...
Tópico(s): Copyright and Intellectual Property
2005 - Taylor & Francis | Popular Music & Society
Srinidhi Karjol, Anusha K. Holla, C B Abhilash, P. V. Amrutha, Y. V. Manohar,
... Customers who need to purchase different products in Walmart or supermarkets needs lots of time and patience ... is appropriate for use in spots such as Walmart & supermarkets, where it can help in lessening work ... listed items present in different racks of the Walmart. Also, with the added feature we have an ... of detecting theft by shoplifters. In addition, the Walmart or supermarket management will be able to analyze ... shopping experience and very often, they visit the Walmart for the shop.
Tópico(s): Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
2018 - Springer Science+Business Media | Communications in computer and information science
Charles Courtemanche, Art Carden, Xilin Zhou, Murugi Ndirangu,
Abstract This paper examines the effect that Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, have on food insecurity. Data come from the 2001–2012 Current Population Survey Food Security Supplements matched to Walmart Supercenter entry dates and locations. Using instrumental variables models that leverage Walmart’s predictable expansion pattern outward from corporate headquarters, we find that closer proximity to a Walmart Supercenter improves household and child food security, as ...
Tópico(s): Homelessness and Social Issues
2018 - Wiley | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
Oluwaseun Oladeji Olaniyi, Anthony Idoko Abalaka, Samuel Oladiipo Olabanji,
The present study evaluates Walmart’s existing big data analytics with business intelligence techniques, accentuating their strengths and weaknesses, and suggests improvements for implementation and ... component in their models would be beneficial for Walmart to improve the precision and appropriateness of their data analysis and decision-making procedures. Walmart is a company that heavily invests in utilizing ... with business intelligence enhances performance and decision-making. Walmart's success in big data analytics relies on ...
Tópico(s): Big Data and Business Intelligence
2023 - Sciencedomain International | Journal of Scientific Research and Reports
Yixian Chen, Prakhar Mehrotra, Nitin Kishore Sai Samala, Kamilia Ahmadi, Viresh Jivane, Linsey Pang, Monika Shrivastav, Nate Lyman, Scott Pleiman,
... and deployed it across many merchandising units at Walmart. The objectives of this system are to (1) ... testing, we implemented the new approach across all Walmart stores in the United States. The result was ... a price-adjustment policy tailored to each store. Walmart increased its sell-through rate (i.e., the ... and reduced its costs by 7%. Benefits that Walmart accrues include demographics-based store personalization, reductions in ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
2021 - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics
Alessandro Bonanno, Stephan J. Goetz,
This article reviews the literature that evaluates WalMart’s impacts on local economies. The authors first describe the methods used to account for potential reverse causality of WalMart’s store location decisions, and then they discuss ... far from truly understanding the net effect of WalMart on local economies, let alone the overall consequences ...
Tópico(s): Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
2012 - SAGE Publishing | Economic Development Quarterly