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Walmart Debuts Second In-Store Fulfillment Center in Bentonville

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Walmart has opened an in-store Market Fulfillment Center (MFC) at Store 100 in its home town of Bentonville, Ark. Like the retailer’s first MFC , which opened in 2019 in Salem, N.H., This new order fulfillment system is truly game-changing,” said Ryan Simpson, Store Manager at Store 100 in a statement.

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Walmart Acquires Robotics Company to Boost Next-Gen Fulfillment Capabilities

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Walmart has entered an agreement to acquire Alert Innovation , a robotics automation company that develops material-handling technology for automating order fulfillment in retail supply chains. Walmart has been working with Alert to customize technology for its market fulfillment centers (MFCs) since 2016. in a blog post.

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Farmstead Raises $7.9 Million, Plans Expansion to Second North Carolina Market

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Taking advantage of the surge in online grocery generated by COVID-19, Farmstead plans to bring its dark store fulfillment model to a third market: Raleigh-Durham, N.C. Farmstead began in the San Francisco Bay area and announced plans in September 2019 to expand into the Carolinas. Charlotte, N.C. in early 2021.

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Target to Spend $5B to Enhance Operations in 2022, Plans 250 More Ulta Beauty Shop-in-Shops

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Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty. and New York’s Times Square.

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Big Lots Plans to Open 500 New Stores, Increase Annual Sales to $8-10 Billion

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Home discount retailer Big Lots is returning to expansion mode after more than a decade of flat store growth, with plans to open as many as 500 new stores in the next six to seven years. The off-price chain plans to open approximately 50 net new stores this year, and ramp up the pace of expansion to about 80 stores per year thereafter.

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Q4 2021 Roundup: Walmart Bets On Fulfillment, Foot Locker Weans Off Nike, Nordstrom Expands Media

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comparable sales growth, including growing market share in grocery, and it will continue building its share by expanding pickup and delivery capacity by 35% in the coming year; Foot Locker posted total sales growth of 6.9% The one exception? While sales were up just 1% year-over-year, they rose 70% on a two-year stack.

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Holiday Success Recipe: Strategically Target Discounts, Focus on Fulfillment , Amp Up Agility

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Other surveys concluded that shoppers are actually spending more despite the recent uncertainty: 73% of shoppers say spending levels will either stay the same or increase this year despite market conditions, according to PowerReviews ; and 81.3% Regardless of whether shoppers are cutting back, they still want to feel like they are splurging.