Walmart to Redesign Produce Section in Bid to Fend Off Amazon

(Bloomberg) — Walmart Inc., wary of Amazon.com Inc.’s encroachment into the grocery space, is revamping the produce department in its U.S. stores.The nation’s biggest grocer will widen aisles, make fruit and vegetable bins more visible and consolidate organic items in one spot, it said in a blog post Wednesday. The renovations, dubbed “Produce 2.0,” will be in 800 Supercenters by the end of January and in about 3,000 stores, including smaller format Neighborhood Markets, by the end of next summer.The changes follow earlier improvements Walmart made to the quality and assortment of its produce, a key category for food retailers …read more

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