{"id":50025,"date":"2017-11-01T06:01:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T06:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=50025"},"modified":"2017-11-01T06:01:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T06:01:34","slug":"wal-mart-triples-online-items-lowers-prices-holiday-season-kicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/wal-mart-triples-online-items-lowers-prices-holiday-season-kicks.html","title":{"rendered":"Wal Mart triples online items lowers prices as holiday season kicks in"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Wal Mart triples online items lowers prices as holiday season kicks in<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Wal Mart triples online items lowers prices as <\/span>holiday<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"> season kicks in: The world\u2019s largest retailer said it tripled its online selections for the holiday season to 60 million items, and that it would provide free two-day shipping on more than two million products when the order size exceeds $35. It said it would also offer discounts for online orders picked up at its stores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The company said its stores and website would offer more exclusive products from companies such as appliance maker Cuisinart and audio equipment maker Bose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The plans were announced at a media briefing to outline Wal-Mart\u2019s strategy for the November and December holiday shopping season, an important period for retailers during which they earn an outsized portion of their annual profits and sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Steve Bratspies, chief merchandising officer at Wal-Mart said the retailer would offer \u201cthousands of rollbacks\u201d or reduced prices across products that would include lower prices on 400 toys from brands like Lego and Nerf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cWe are buying as much inventory as we think we can handle and sell &#8230; we think we are in a really strong position,\u201d Bratspies said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Bratspies said that for the third consecutive year the retailer would focus more on discounts and offering the lowest prices on items instead of gimmicky product deals, as customers expect more consistent pricing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Wal-Mart will hold more than <\/span>20,000 holiday<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"> events at its stores where shoppers can test and try top-selling items, chief marketing officer Tony Rogers said, adding that the company was investing heavily in improving the shopping experience at its stores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">Source:http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-holidayshopping\/wal-mart-triples-online-items-lowers-prices-as-holiday-season-kicks-in-idUSKBN1D13GX<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/wal-mart-triples-online-items-lowers-prices-holiday-season-kicks.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wal Mart triples online items lowers prices as holiday season kicks in Wal Mart triples online items lowers prices as holiday season kicks in: The world\u2019s largest retailer said it tripled its online selections for the holiday season to 60 million items, and that it would provide free two-day shipping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[36456,30104,90070],"class_list":["post-50025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-best-usa-latest-business-updates-news","tag-current-business-updates-usa-news","tag-wal-mart-triples-online-items-lowers-prices-as-holiday-season-kicks-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}