The Home Depot is continuing to expand its use of hydrogen energy and plans to use the power to generate electricity at 200 stores by the end of this year. The company’s goal is to use hydrogen fuel cells, which generate energy through a chemical …
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Walmart Competing With Amazon’s Free Two-Day Shipping
Walmart is now offering an online membership to customers that is similar to Amazon Prime and provides free and fast shipping. Starting June 29, the retail giant began offering 30-day free trials of ShippingPass, which is a program that provides shoppers with unlimited two-day shipping. USA …
Read More »Walmart Ends Price Matching Program
In-store price matching from ads is now a thing of the past for Walmart shoppers. Historically, customers of the retail giant could present a competitors’ printed ad that displayed a lower price at checkout in order to get a discount. On …
Read More »Lumber Liquidators Won’t Sell Chinese Flooring, Continues Tests
Flooring discounter Lumber Liquidators won’t be selling Chinese-made laminate anymore, and has agreed to continue an air-quality testing program for consumers. Federal agencies, including the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, had been investigating the Toano, Virginia, company since early 2015, when the retailer …
Read More »Home Depot Sues Credit Card Companies Over Chips
Banks continue rolling out new microchip-embedded debit and credit cards, which are supposed to be more secure against fraud than cards that are authenticated with signatures only. But Home Depot, in a recently filed lawsuit, says Visa and MasterCard aren’t making transactions as secure as …
Read More »Walmart Canada to Stop Accepting Visa Credit Cards
Walmart and Visa’s conflict over credit cards has gotten bigger. Starting July 18, Walmart Canada will begin to phase out Visa as a credit card its retail stores accept, according to the company. A U.S. lawsuit Walmart filed against Visa this …
Read More »Walmart Introduces Training Programs to Compete
Walmart has long been criticized for offering low-skilled jobs that pay little and offer few opportunities to move up. Now, it’s fighting back against those criticisms by offering new training programs for its employees. According to an article from The …
Read More »Walmart Tests Drones to Manage Inventory
Walmart’s warehouse inventory management process could soon be speeding up. The country’s largest retail company is testing drones in distribution centers to help manage inventory more efficiently. Within nine months, the drones could be used in Walmart’s massive warehouses, according to The …
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