Today’s Tipsheet: H.Depot Tests Video Conferencing | Wmart Invades Canada Bus Stops | Five Below Soars

  “Walmart Canada & P&G Launch QR Code Campaign at Bus Stops”  by Jennifer Kwan at Yahoo.  “Here’s the idea: customers can use their mobile devices to scan posters with QR-codes at certain bus shelters to buy select items including Pantene shampoo, Pampers diapers and Tide detergent and have the goods delivered to their homes […]

Today’s Tipsheet: Walmart Annual Mtg Highlights: No Grocery Delivery Expansion, “Store of the Community” for AR, OK & MO, etc.

  “Wal-Mart has no U.S. grocery delivery expansion plans for now” at Reuters.  “For now, it is holding off based on a lack of demand.  “We are not making any announcements about other markets for grocery delivery in the U.S. right now,” Neil Ashe, the president and chief executive officer of Walmart Global eCommerce, told […]

Today’s Tipsheet: Duck Dynasty at Wmart Mtg | JD Power Ranks H.Depot #5 | Costco Comps +5%

  “Home Depot No. 5 on J.D. Power Home Improvement Retailer Satisfaction rankings” by Jacques Couret at Atlanta Business Journal.  “The Home Depot Inc. ranked fifth place on the J.D. Power 2013 Home Improvement Retailer Satisfaction Study.  The Atlanta-based home improvement giant scored 747 (out of 1,000) in the study, which was below the industry […]

Today’s Tipsheet: Amazon Hungry for Grocery Business | Costco Wants 110 in Canada | Walmart Wants Peru

  “Amazon Plans Major Move Into Grocery Business” at Reuters via CNBC.  “Amazon.com is planning a major roll-out of an online grocery business that it has been developing for years, targeting one of the largest retail sectors yet to be upended by e-commerce, according to two people familiar with the situation…Amazon now plans to expand […]

Today’s Tipsheet: Wmart’s Fresh Produce Guarantee | D.General Sales Up | Scotts CEO Reprimanded

  “Walmart offers fresh produce guarantee to shoppers”  “Walmart is able to cut the time it takes to get produce into stores by buying directly from growers and relying on its own distribution centers and trucking systems. It has produce experts working with farmers in key growing regions and aims to double its sales of […]

Today’s Tipsheet: H.Depot’s “Oil Boom” Shack | Lowe’s Tightens Toilets | Reward Program Overload

   “Home Depot makes a one-time exception so it can get in on the oil boom” by Sam Black at Minn./St. Paul Bus. Journal.  “How urgently does The Home Depot want to get into the oil-boom area in western North Dakota?  Consider that for the first time in the company’s history, Home Depot is converting […]