Walmart Makes A Shrewd Deal with an EV Start-Up
Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of this week’s announced deal that Walmart is acquiring electric vehicle vans from start-up Canoo. This is a side panel to our commentary on the implications of a more conservative funding environment for up and coming start-ups and how lifeline investors can extract very friendly terms
Industry Supply Network Response: Sampling of Bellwether Companies- Part Four
The Supply Chain Matters blog surveys recent financial and operational performance of some bellwether companies’ indicative of ongoing industry supply chain disruption. We focus on indicators of how certain industries, companies, key services providers and customers are faring during this unprecedented 2021 global supply chain surge of activity. In this blog we focus on select U.S. retailers.
Walmart’s Latest Impressive Financial and Operational Performance
The Supply Chain Matters blog continues to highlight for readers the ongoing implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, the most profound of which has the explosion in online buying among global consumers. Highlighted are the quarterly financial and operational performance aspects for retailers Walmart in the latest quarter.
Walmart Spooks Investors With Financial Performance Results
Global retailer Walmart reported financial performance for the all-important 2017 holiday fulfillment period and fiscal 2018 and investors were not pleased. Today’s news is yet another indicator of the high growth expectations being placed on online retailers, and the continued challenges in transitioning to a combined online and physical retail fulfillment presence.