Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) US says confident of growth momentum in holiday season

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.(NYSE:WMT)’s U.S. unit has said that it is confident of maintaining its growth momentum going into the holiday season, which usually sees a spike in sales.

The company said that it had a sound strategy for the holiday season and it would hasten the opening of small stores.

It said that the company as targeting online sales at $9 billion by 2014.

Shares in Wal-Mart have been on an uptick recently and on Wednesday it closed up 1.7 percent at $75.42, which is an all-time closing high for the company. In 2012, so far Wal-Mart shares have been the fourth best performer rising more than fourth, compared to the Dow which has risen 9.2 percent in the same period.

Wal-Mart U.S. said it planned to become more aggressive and raise its marketing and advertising campaigns.

It said that it would also use social media platforms such as Facebook and others to drive sales, such as allowing its 22 million Facebook fans to vote on toys they’d like to see “rollbacks,” or temporary discounts, on.

With regard to delivery services Wal-Mart has started same-day delivery services in the Bay area, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C.

Wal-Mart is now competing with Amazon.com in the online space and has been increasing its presence there.

Wal-Mart U.S.’s comparable sales for the first half have risen 2.4 percent, as it increased traffic and gained market share, Bill Simon, head of Walmart U.S., said at the company’s annual analyst meeting.

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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) Vs Amazon (AMZN) : WMT Introduces Same-Day Delivery

Amazon.com, Inc.(NASDAQ:AMZN) woke up to a lump of coal when it found that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.(NYSE:WMT) has declared the test launch of the same-day delivery feature in a number of cities. The new service comes at a time when holidays are just around the corner. Also the time emphasizes on the advantage enjoyed by the biggets retailer of the world in the race to let customers get what they want.

The same-day delivery option is branded by Walmart To Go. It became available to shopper in Northern Virginia a week back. People in Philadelphia started enjoying the service two days later. The service is supposed to launch in Minnepolis shortly. People in San Francisco can possibly avail the service by the end of this month or starting of November. For a flat $10 cost, customers can go online and order a number of same-day items with no minimum purchase mark. Genres include toys, houseware, sporting goods and electronics. If they get their orders in before noon time, they get to choose a four-hour window for UPS to deliver the order on the very day.

Walmart customers are willing to avail the choice of same-day delivery – the firm says it found so through a survey. This does not come as a surprise as most US resident reside within driving distance of one of the country’s 3,100 Walmart Supercenters. Same-day deliveries combine the convenience of online ordering and home delivery with something approximately the immediate satisfaction of visiting the store.

Amazon has tested this delivery option and appears to be working on increasing its delivery speed by building new distribution centers in California and other close places to where people reside.

Industry analysts are of the opinion that proximity of goods to customers prevents the delivery waits. However, Amazon seems unlikely to catch up to Walmart in its ability to get its wares close to where its customers live.

Shares of WMT made a new high of $76.81 and closed at $75.43.

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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) Launches Same-Day Delivery, Amazon (AMZN) Faces Competition

Amazon.com, Inc.(NASDAQ:AMZN) woke up to a lump of coal when it found that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.(NYSE:WMT) has declared the test launch of the same-day delivery feature in a number of cities. The new service comes at a time when holidays are just around the corner. Also the time emphasizes on the advantage enjoyed by the biggets retailer of the world in the race to let customers get what they want.

The same-day delivery option is branded by Walmart To Go. It became available to shopper in Northern Virginia a week back. People in Philadelphia started enjoying the service two days later. The service is supposed to launch in Minnepolis shortly. People in San Francisco can possibly avail the service by the end of this month or starting of November. For a flat $10 cost, customers can go online and order a number of same-day items with no minimum purchase mark. Genres include toys, houseware, sporting goods and electronics. If they get their orders in before noon time, they get to choose a four-hour window for UPS to deliver the order on the very day.

Walmart customers are willing to avail the choice of same-day delivery – the firm says it found so through a survey. This does not come as a surprise as most US resident reside within driving distance of one of the country’s 3,100 Walmart Supercenters. Same-day deliveries combine the convenience of online ordering and home delivery with something approximately the immediate satisfaction of visiting the store.

Amazon has tested this delivery option and appears to be working on increasing its delivery speed by building new distribution centers in California and other close places to where people reside.

Industry analysts are of the opinion that proximity of goods to customers prevents the delivery waits. However, Amazon seems unlikely to catch up to Walmart in its ability to get its wares close to where its customers live.

Shares of WMT made a new high of $76.81 and closed at $75.43.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) Experiments Limited Same-Day Deliveries Of Online Demands - AMZN

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) is experimenting same-day deliveries of toys, televisions and other general merchandise purchased online in a few US markets as a way to find methods of coping up with competitors and to lure busy shoppers this holiday season.

The test conducted by ‘Walmart To Go’ service started in Northern Virginia and Philadelphia in the starting of the month and is geared up to expand to Minneapolis on Tuesday, as per Walmart. Afterwards, the firm plans on expanding the test to California’s market sometime in late October or early November.

The most recent comes at a time when the world’s largest retailer is experiencing increasingly steep competition from Amazon.com, Inc.(NASDAQ:AMZN) and other web retailers. The new test gives Walmart a chance to associate its updates website with its thousands of stores so as to make the chain more expedient for shoppers.

The test happens to be not the only way that Walmart is trying to reach out to its thousands of stores through its online business. Bill Simon, Walmart US President said in September that the firm uses a group of stores around the country fulfil online demands that reduces shipping charges as well as time.

In the same speech at a Goldman Sachs event, Simon had mentioned that Walmart was silently playing with same-day delivery but he did not reveal much about the markets that may have been the participants.

In the new test, shoppers in the Northern Virgina, Minneapolis and Philadelphia markets can pay $10 flat charge for same-day delivery of items that are picked from general merchandise items carried in local stores. Consumers can choose an unlimited number of those items.

Customers in those three markets must register, place their orders by noon and pick one of the three four-hour windows for delivery later in that very day. The goods are then delivered through United Parcel Service Inc. 

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