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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
Why:
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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.
According to an article in the July issue of Consumer Reports, U.S. manufacturing has increased 45 percent under President Obama’s administration.…

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.
Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer with nearly 1.5 million associates in the U.S., today will discuss company plans to create…

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.
So about that eye-catching Walmart quote.…

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,…

Walmart’s Customers Too Broke To Shop
Walmart is facing a "perfect storm" that's hurting its sales growth, according to Moody's.
The company's core customers are struggling with flat income levels, and savings from lower fuel prices aren't translating into more retail spending,…

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…

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.
The move by the largest private employer in the U.S. will affect…

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…

FTC Closes Probe of Walmart Over Misleading Made in USA Labels
Wal-Mart is making a big deal out of the fact that much of its merchandise is "Made in the U.S.A." The company is two years into a 10-year plan to spend some $250 billion more on products from U.S. factories and even hosts an annual summit…