Walmart’s Retail Link on a Mac?
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...
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Catching Those Automatic Reports
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...
READ MOREThe 80/20 Rule in Retail Link
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...
READ MORE30-60-90 Thinking
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,...
READ MOREWalmart’s 50th Anniversary Highlights Change
http://youtu.be/c7-CDzY304w Walmart is celebrating 50 years of service this year. A lot of things have changed since 1962, and the relationship between the buyer and the seller is certainly one of...
READ MOREPreparing Presentations for Buyer Meetings
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...
READ MOREWalmart Supplier Performance Scorecard Intro
One of the differences between Walmart and other retailers is that Walmart tells suppliers exactly what’s expected of them. As a result, Walmart requires a higher level of accountability from...
READ MOREFinding Your Way Around Retail Link
Sam Walton wanted to share lots of information with Walmart’s suppliers Lots of information. Walmart systems has about 583 terabytes of information, while the Library of Congress contains about...
READ MOREThe Market Basket Concept
Market Basket Analysis, part of the Retail Link data available to Walmart Suppliers, looks at what’s know as “association rules” in shopping: what items are bought together....
READ MOREWalmart Shares Data with Nielsen
Walmart knows big data. Walmart owns big data. But Walmart hasn’t been sharing its data much for the past decade. Nielsen, the consumer information giant, calls the willingness of most...
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