Before Your Buyer Meeting
Buyers and suppliers are on the same side, but it’s still natural to have a little trepidation about a meeting with your buyer. His or her decisions can have a big effect on your business...
READ MOREResources, articles, and podcasts that focus on the needs and interests of suppliers working with Walmart or aspiring to do so.
Buyers and suppliers are on the same side, but it’s still natural to have a little trepidation about a meeting with your buyer. His or her decisions can have a big effect on your business...
READ MOREYou get access to the exciting new world of data that is Retail Link… and then what? Plenty of new Retail Link users get stuck in what’s called the “Sojourner” phase: you...
READ MORESam 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 MOREIn one sense, there’s no such thing as too much data. The more information we have, the better we can make decisions. We want to grab all the information from Retail Link and compare it with...
READ MOREMarket 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 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...
READ MORE“I’m a new Walmart vendor,” began a recent caller to our office. “What classes should I take?” Good question. We at 8th & Walton offer a range of courses for Walmart...
READ MOREThe Doing Business in Bentonville speaker series will present Greg Chandler, Senior Marketing Director – Customer Engagement for Walmart, speaking on “Walmart Mobile Retail – How...
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