Walmart Open Call for Made in USA Products
What: Walmart Open Call for US Products
Where: Bentonville, AR
When: June 28, 2017
Who: Companies that want to sell U.S. products to Walmart Read more
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The Case for Reshoring: Bringing Quality Manufacturing Jobs to USA
Good news for U.S. manufacturers: stateside production and employment opportunities are on the rise.
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Walmart Outlines Goals for American Job Growth and Community Investment
34,000 jobs, training for over 225,000 associates and grants for innovation in textile manufacturing. Read more
Meet Company That Could Eventually Take Down Walmart
Retail analysts say the world’s biggest retailer has reason to fear a small grocery chain that’s based in Idaho and boasts a business model that allows it to undercut Walmart on prices.
The Walmart Effect: Store Closures Are Leaving Food Deserts in Their Wake
When and where Sam Walton’s Walmart opened, a slow hollowing out of the town square surely followed. When the Fairfield store opened in 1986, our town square was home to a clothing store, a small department store, a furniture store, a pharmacy, a jeweler, two hardware stores, and many others. As the county seat, Fairfield’s retailers not only supported its population of 10,000 but also residents of tiny neighboring towns, such as Salina and Libertyville, where only a few hundred people lived. Today, only one of those stores remains—a symptom of what’s come to be known as the Walmart effect. Read more
Walmart’s Customers Too Broke To Shop
Walmart is facing a “perfect storm” that’s hurting its sales growth, according to Moody’s. Read more
Walmart: It Came, It Conquered, Now It’s Packing Up and Leaving
The Town’n Country grocery in Oriental, North Carolina, a local fixture for 44 years, closed its doors in October after a Walmart store opened for business. Now, three months later — and less than two years after Walmart arrived — the retail giant is pulling up stakes, leaving the community with no grocery store and no pharmacy. Read more
Walmart to Shut Hundreds of Stores Across USA
Walmart Stores Inc. plans to shutter 269 stores, the most in at least two decades, as it abandons its experimental small-format Express outlets and looks to streamline the chain. Read more
Study Says: Walmart Imports From China Displaced 400,000 Jobs
Imports from China by Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer and biggest importer, eliminated or displaced over 400,000 jobs in the United States between 2001 and 2013, according to an estimate by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive research group that has long targeted Walmart’s policies.
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Walmart’s Suppliers Are Finally Fighting Back
After years of meeting demands for ever cheaper prices, many Wal-Mart Stores Inc. suppliers are saying no to new margin-squeezing storage fees and a payment schedule that could delay for months how quickly some are paid. Read more
7 Key Facts to Keep in Mind about Walmart’s U.S. Manufacturing Summit
It’s been two and a half years since Walmart announced its so-called “U.S. manufacturing initiative”, which means it’s time for another PR-heavy, Walmart manufacturing “summit,” this one in Bentonville, Arkansas on July 7th and 8th. Undoubtedly, Walmart will use the summit to deliver feel-good talking points to the media, so this seems like a good time to review some facts about Walmart’s impact on the U.S. manufacturing sector, past, present and future. Read more
Walmart Suppliers Grapple With ‘Made in USA’ Labels
Detroit Quality Brushes is a company that does just what its name suggests: It makes high quality brushes in Detroit. Read more
Lots of Fuzzy Numbers Behind Walmart’s American Manufacturing Push
Walmart, the nation’s largest importer of foreign goods by volume, is currently hosting an open call for American-made product pitches at its Arkansas headquarters. This “American manufacturing summit” is part of the company’s commitment – made very publicly, with lots of fanfare, in 2013 – to buy $250 billion worth of American-made products by 2023. Read more
Walmart: Opening Our Doors – to Open Bigger Ones Across America
100 new hires. That’s how many Emilia PC expects to add by the end of this year, all resulting from one step the beauty product manufacturer took roughly 12 months ago: attending Walmart’s Open Call for products that support American jobs.
Walmart Works To Correct ‘Made In USA’ Label Problem
Whoops.
The Truth in Advertising group has found more than 100 items sold on Walmart.com that were incorrectly identified as “Made in the U.S.A.” The news comes just more than a week before the retailer’s Manufacturing Summit and Made in the U.S. Open Call in Bentonville. Read more
Walmart Website Riddled with Deceptive Made in USA Labeling
Walmart is going all out for America, pledging to buy an additional $250 billion in American products. To that end, the world’s largest retailer will host a manufacturing summit next week where it will look for U.S.-made products to sell. The event starts three days after the Fourth of July and promises to be a star-spangled affair.
Why Walmart and Costco Shrimp Prices Are So Low
Some of the most popular American corporations are importing shrimp at super-cheap prices from Thailand, where migrant workers are in slavery, like in Nazi Germany, being tortured while they work for no pay 20 hours a day. How much shrimp is being imported that’s processed by slaves, including child slaves? Walmart and Costco are contributing to the chaos, buying and selling shrimp exported from Thailand every year, and it’s slave-labor shrimp at “rock bottom” cost. No wonder Walmart and Costco are such “successful” businesses. What else are they buying that’s made by slaves who are tortured mentally and physically while working 20-hour days for zero pay? Wine, maybe?
PR Ploy Or Not, Walmart’s ‘Made In America’ Push Means Something
Last week, Walmart expanded on the $50 billion Buy American pledge it made last January with a full-fledged Made-in-America summit.
Made in USA: We Are The 3%
This past week I’ve been in a bit of a funk. My funky mood began on the day Wal-Mart made its big announcement – they plan to invest $50 Billion over the next 10 years in products made in the USA. Why, you ask would such seemingly good news put me in such a funk? Because I think Wal-Mart’s big announcement is another case of red, white, and blue washing.
Walmart to Boost Sourcing of US Made Products: Hiring 100k Veterans
Walmart announced bold commitments to increase domestic sourcing of the products it sells and help veterans find jobs when they come off active duty. Speaking at the National Retail Federation’s annual BIG Show, Walmart U.S. President and CEO Bill Simon also announced the company is helping part-time associates who want to be full time, make that transition. Read more
Walmart to Boost US-Made Products
Walmart today announced bold commitments to increase domestic sourcing of the products it sells and help veterans find jobs when they come off active duty. Speaking at the National Retail Federation’s annual BIG Show, Walmart U.S. President and CEO Bill Simon also announced the company is helping part-time associates who want to be full time, make that transition.
