What Walmart can teach retail

If retail talk in the 1990s was focused on the threat of big box retailers (aka ‘category killers’), epitomised by the domination of Walmart in the US, it seems that retail talk in the 2010s has been about the threat of ‘pure plays’ to dethrone these very ‘category killers’, epitomised by the current battle between Amazon and Walmart. Walmart’s efforts to subdue Amazon without creating an Amazon equivalent (Jet.com aside) have been noteworthy, and they hold some important lessons f

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