Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart Inc.: Tailwinds shaped retail strategy

16 March 2022, Mumbai:

Small business owners and entrepreneurs with a dream of selling their U.S. made, grown or assembled products to millions of customers now have their chance.

Today, Walmart announced the opening of the application period for its 9th annual Open Call event.

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​​"We had a strategy when the year started before 2020 got interrupted. And it turned out that the tailwinds that were associated with retail furthered our strategy.

We have become more digital.

Our delivery business has grown globally, and our pickup business in some countries has really grown. Many of the things we had already started just really accelerated," Doug McMillon said.

Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart Inc., spoke with ET's Bodhisatva Ganguli at the Economic Times Global Business Summit on a range of issues including the pandemic, rising inflation, the Ukraine crisis, prospects of a global economic recovery, and the US-based retail giant's investment in Flipkart.

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CREDITS: Corporate Walmart ET  (The news article has not been edited by DFU Publications staff).