Walmart and Amazon are both ramping up their strategies for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, seeking to capture consumer interest during the holiday shopping season. Walmart’s Black Friday events will unfold in three phases. The first event begins online on Nov. 11 at noon ET...
In today’s competitive retail arena, Amazon stepped up its game by announcing that Prime membership will now include fuel savings, allowing members to save up to 10 cents per gallon at participating gas stations. This initiative from Amazon comes four years after Walmart introduced similar...
As Walmart and Amazon compete to provide the best online shopping experiences, both are increasing their use of generative AI (GenAI) to improve search offerings. The former announced Wednesday (Oct. 9) that it is using new AI and augmented reality, among other digital technologies, to...
Seemingly as long as the world’s top two retailers have competed, Walmart has been considered the go-to for groceries while Amazon leads in non-food sales. Walmart’s crown in groceries is not currently at risk, but Amazon seems determined to disrupt this balance in upcoming months...
It’s springtime. With the events of last year’s pandemic terror still fresh in mind, it’s easy to forget there’s a major event to speculate about for Amazon watchers as the company bids for the whole U.S. paycheck. The event is Prime Day. Last year it...
A week ago in this space, PYMNTS talked about how the two titans of retail, who have found themselves in a market share dead heat, are each doing more to embrace the strength of its rival. In Amazon’s case, that means addressing the enormous disadvantage...
In “The Art of War,” Sun Tzu said, “If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat.” Although that was written 2,500 years ago, it is still relevant in 2021, amid the unprecedentedly tight market share...
Just weeks after the nation’s two largest retailers each closed the books on record annual results and had begun to square off on new market-share fights in key categories like apparel and groceries, Amazon and Walmart have found themselves facing a new set of challenges:...
In this week’s Whole Paycheck report, just days after reports surfaced that Amazon was upping its grocery game to try to chip away at Walmart’s 10x lead in food and beverage sales, the 60-year-old owner of 5,500 stores is making moves of its own to...
