Walmart Unveils Holiday Plans: Invests in Pickup, Introduces Holiday Helpers
October 27 2016 - 12:01AM
Business Wire
Retailer Lowers Prices on Thousands of Items
and Expands Online Assortment
Walmart announced today plans to deliver its trademark low
prices for customers this holiday while meeting their everyday
needs throughout the season. For the first time, Walmart is
deploying an army of Holiday Helpers to better serve customers in
the checkout line. The retailer has also dramatically increased the
amount of products available through its Pickup service, launched
thousands of rollbacks along with other great prices available
every day, and will add millions of items to Walmart.com in the
coming months.
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Starting Nov. 4, Walmart's Holiday
Helpers will be in stores dedicated to helping customers get
through the checkout process faster. Holiday Helpers, ready with
candy canes and smiles, will assist customers with finding the
shortest line, open registers as needed and will even quickly grab
items customers might have forgotten. (Photo: Business Wire)
“We are listening to our customers and looking for ways to
simplify their busy lives,” said Judith McKenna, chief operating
officer, Walmart U.S. “Whether our customers are checking items off
their grocery lists or their kids’ holiday lists, we want to make
their shopping experiences easy and fun. This includes having
clean, fast and friendly stores, an easier check out experience and
enabling customers to shop seamlessly through services like
Pickup.”
Introducing Holiday Helpers and Delivering the Holiday
Spirit
Starting Nov. 4, Walmart’s Holiday Helpers will be in stores
dedicated to helping customers get through the checkout process
faster. Holiday Helpers, ready with candy canes and smiles, will
assist customers with finding the shortest line, open registers as
needed and will even quickly grab items customers might have
forgotten. During peak times, Walmart stores will increase the
number of Holiday Helpers serving customers.
These Holiday Helpers will bring the holiday spirit to stores,
which will be transformed into winter wonderlands this year.
Customers will also enjoy more than 150,000 planned demos and
visits from Santa who will make 23,000 appearances throughout the
season.
Bringing More to Pickup
Pickup, especially same-day, is incredibly popular during the
holiday season. During busy holiday shopping weeks, Walmart
receives up to five times as many same-day pickup orders as
compared to a normal week. Walmart has expanded the assortment
available for pickup overall and has added tens of thousands of
items in categories including apparel, seasonal décor, toys, and
electronics for same-day Pickup. To facilitate a faster and easier
pickup experience, the retailer is allocating additional Pickup
staff including dedicated Pickup managers in every store for the
first time.
Offering New Items, Exclusives and Great Prices – In Stores
and Online
From an exclusive Disney Princess Carriage and a 3D Virtual
Reality Drone to ugly Christmas sweaters, Walmart is stocking its
shelves with the items it knows customers will be looking for,
including exclusives in every category. To kick off the season, the
retailer has launched thousands of new rollbacks combined with tens
of thousands of items available at low prices every day. For
example, Walmart will offer a new Roku 32-inch HDTV for $125 in
November and December, which is the same price as the retailer’s
Black Friday offer last year.
“I can’t remember another year when I’ve been this excited about
the merchandise we are offering customers,” said Steve Bratspies,
chief merchandising officer, Walmart U.S. “It’s not just about one
category or one item. Our whole store is going to be stocked with
new, exciting items from hot toys to new electronics available at
the best prices. We will win the season on price, from the first
weekend in November to Black Friday and Cyber Monday and through
those final weeks in December.”
Walmart has substantially grown its online assortment from
roughly 8 million at the start of this year to 20 million today
with millions of additional items scheduled to be added in the
coming months. The retailer is also making its broader assortment
easier to shop. Starting Nov. 1, Walmart.com will feature a top 20
list of items to help customers discover exclusive offerings, great
prices and products they wouldn’t expect to find at Walmart.
For more information on Walmart’s holiday plan, visit
http://corporate.walmart.com/holiday.
About Walmart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) helps people around the world
save money and live better – anytime and anywhere – in retail
stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each week, nearly
260 million customers and members visit our 11,539 stores under 63
banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries.
With fiscal year 2016 revenue of $482.1 billion, Walmart employs
more than 2.3 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be
a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment
opportunity. Additional information about Walmart can be found by
visiting http://corporate.walmart.com, on Facebook at
http://facebook.com/walmart and on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/walmart. Online merchandise sales are available
at http://www.walmart.com and http://www.samsclub.com.
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