Standing before an audience of 14,000 people last year, Walmart Inc (WMT.N) executives described a radical plan to help it fend off Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and other online delivery services from stealing its customers. Walmart’s own store employees would bring online orders directly to shoppers’ homes after completing their usual shifts of up to nine hours on the sales floors. “Just imagine associates all over the world delivering orders to customers on their way home,” Marc Lore, head of Walmart’s e-commerce operations, said at its annual meeting in June 2017. …read more
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