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A recent survey by the Harvest Group and WalmartHelp identified one issue as the biggest challenge faced by Walmart vendors: “fixing poor retail execution.” 56% of respondents chose this...

Walmart has a dozen supercenters in Puerto Rico and plans to convert the remaining half dozen Division 1 stores into supercenters as well. There are also 11 Sam’s Clubs, 27 Amigo Supermarkets, and...

Note: for information about Walmart’s current fiscal year, go to Walmart Fiscal Year Calendar. The familiar January to January isn’t the only calendar around. Calendars based on lunar...

We’ll leave this blog post up for a historical record (and just in case it’s not settled yet), but the good news is that you should now be able to use Retail Link on your Mac. The new...

You’re smart, so you set up Walmart Retail Link reports to run automatically on Sunday night. That way, you can come in on Monday morning, grab the data, and get going. You’re an...

Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was an Italian economist who noticed, in 1906, that 80% of Italy’s wealth was held by 20% of the population. Over the years, more and more people noticed that more...

It’s the first week in December, so you’re focused on the holidays. In fact, a lot of us can’t see past the holidays at all. Whether you’re exulting over your holiday sales,...

Creating a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting with your buyer is not quite the same as making a presentation for a large meeting. There’s no public performance going on, you don’t have...