Walmart: Key Insights and Practical Lessons from the World's Largest Retailer - Softcover

Roberts, Bryan; Berg, Natalie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749462736 ISBN 13: 9780749462734

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2012

Synopsis

Walmart provides a detailed assessment of the world's largest retailer that forever changed the face of retailing. The book examines Walmart's successes, failures, and whether it can stay ahead for the next 50 years. Despite being a source for best practice in procurement, logistics, systems and store format innovation, the retail giant is now facing several issues that affect its future development. Starting from its inception in rural Arkansas in 1962, this objective analysis of Walmart's history addresses the rapid change of retail, including the rise of e-commerce and multi-channel retailing; Walmart International and its 'everyday low prices' philosophy; the saturation of the superstore format, and much more.

In a time of rapid change, will the world's largest retailer be able to reconfigure? Walmart provides the necessary insights for retailers, advertisers, other business professionals and students to understand how Walmart became a retail giant, the lessons that can be learned, and what is in store for the future.

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About the Authors

Bryan Roberts has spent over ten years as a Walmart analyst and has gained a great understanding of Walmart's strategies, objectives and achievements. An expert in retail research and insights and a frequent commentator on retail issues for the global media, Bryan also lectures in retail management as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Surrey. Bryan is Director of Retail Insights at Kantar Retail.

Natalie Berg has spent many years helping retailers compete, or partner with, retail giants like Walmart and Amazon. Based in London, UK, she is former Global Research Director at Planet Retail and now runs her own consultancy, NBK Retail, specializing in retail strategy, changing shopping habits and future trends.

As one of the Top 30 global retail influencers, Berg has produced research on a number of industry topics including: convergence of physical and digital retail, click & collect, customer loyalty, discount retailing, store of the future and frictionless commerce. She is a regular TV and radio guest and her views on retail have been published in the FT, Guardian, BBC, The Times, Retail Week, among others. Natalie holds a Bachelor of Science in International Business from the University of Connecticut and also studied at Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Grenoble, France.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749462736
• ISBN 13: 9780749462734
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240