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Savvy thoughts from the Phoenix Principle. Walmart is a dinosaur that can not or will not change. WalMart’s industrial strategy is similar to the Titanic strategy. Build a boat so big it can’t sink. And if any retailer could be that big, then WalMart was it. But these scandals keep showing us that the water [...] The tagline of @WalmartLabs is “Social + Mobile + Retail” and it’s an indicator of where Walmart wants to go with the [Kosmix semantic web] technology it acquired. Walmart wants to tap into social data – for example from Twitter – and entice mobile phone toting customers to its stores. Walmart also wants [...] Here’s one example. I upgraded my iPhone 3GS to an iPhone 4 at an Apple Store in Las Vegas. However, they were out of clear plastic protecters for the screen. A nearby Best Buy didn’t have them either. A search online found some, and pricing was generally about $18 for a package of three (the [...] The U.S. Homeland Security Department said Monday its “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign has been expanded to Walmart stores across the country” after starting in the New York City MTA. Imagine my excitement. Dale Sommers just said on his Roaddog Trucking talk show (Sirius 147), it’s guaranteed someone will be walking down [...] CleanTechnica thinks it could, given the broad-based coalition Walmart has assembled plus their enormous clout in the marketplace means they can mandate that changes be made. But what drives Walmart’s decisions around sustainability are these three goals: 1. To be supplied by 100% by renewable energy 2. To create zero waste 3. To sell [...] |  | ||||
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