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Grocery prices remain front of mind for many consumers: That presents an opportunity for value-oriented merchants such as Aldi, Target, and Walmart to steal share by offering low prices for Thanksgiving staples.

Growth rates will decline, but digital grocery will remain a key focus for retailers looking to drive incremental sales dollars in ecommerce.

Like Walmart, Amazon has technological savvy and deep payments expertise鈥攑lus deep pockets to finance the endeavor. It also already offers an ACH-based pay by bank option, making a real-time solution the next logical step. Walmart will pilot a pay by bank cash-back and discount rewards program for customers.

We鈥檝e never broken out Walmart retail clinic patients, but the company said earlier this year it鈥檚 getting out of the health clinic business entirely. What鈥檚 next? Expect to see retail clinic operators that don鈥檛 intend to completely exit the market adopt new strategies for getting patients to their locations.

To take on retail media giants like Amazon and Walmart Connect, smaller networks need to constantly show what sets them apart and step up their media game.

Though not expected alongside Coach or Tory Burch, Walmart and Old Navy appeared at New York Fashion Week (NYFW) to draw attention to their latest fashion endeavors.

Sam鈥檚 Club is on a winning streak: The Walmart-owned wholesale club is making several notable moves with an eye toward improving the customer experience.

Amazon will continue to gain market share, but new competition from Temu, Walmart, and other retailers could stunt future dominance.

Walmart joins the early October holiday sales push: The retailer will launch its Walmart Holiday Days event on October 8, the same day Amazon and Target are hosting sales.

Walmart enhanced its online marketplace with new capabilities and seller solutions, the retailer announced at its annual Walmart Marketplace Seller Summit this week. Updates include the addition of premium beauty products, expanded fulfillment services, and revamped seller solutions.

Walmart bets on AR: The retailer experiments with several use cases for the technology that it hopes can make shopping online as immersive, interactive, and social as in-person experience.

Amazon and Walmart are search advertising鈥檚 growth engines: The latter is a distant second to the former, accounting for nearly 4 in 10 non-Amazon retail media search ad dollars this year.

Meanwhile, a growing focus on price and value is pushing shoppers toward lower-priced competitors like Walmart, Amazon, and Ulta Beauty. Our take: The retail landscape is always in flux. Even amid the swirling headwinds, 5,800 new stores are expected to open this year. But the merchants that will succeed are those with a clear, compelling value proposition.

Major retailers like IKEA, Walmart, and ThredUp are launching peer-to-peer resale marketplaces, aiming to capture a slice of the booming secondhand market. This trend comes as US marketplace ecommerce sales are projected to surpass $500 billion next year, according to our forecast.

Retailers invest in virtual reality, mobile apps, and AI to improve the customer experience: Walmart, Levi鈥檚, and Family Dollar are among the companies turning to tech to boost sales.

Amazon Prime Day conditioned shoppers to expect bargains in July: That鈥檚 driven Google, Target, Walmart, and others to seize on the opportunity to drive consumers to spend.

It also offers banking services like checking and savings accounts, rewards for users who shop at Walmart, and early wage access for Walmart鈥檚 employees. Across all of its products, One boasts 3 million monthly active users. Our take: Walmart is becoming a major payments player and introducing a new competitive threat to banks and other fintechs.

Albertsons, Costco, and Instacart are enhancing their retail media offerings. TikTok Shop reached a $1 million livestream. And three-time consecutive first place winner Walmart is developing immersive ways to shop and catering product lines to younger shoppers. Here鈥檚 our Unofficial Most Interesting Retailers List for June 2024.

The ecommerce giant also revamped 26 Amazon Fresh fulfillment centers to include a wider array of products, including items from Whole Foods Market and Amazon.com. Amazon is building a micro fulfillment center attached to a Whole Foods location in Pennsylvania, enabling Whole Foods shoppers to order items from Amazon鈥檚 website and Amazon Fresh and pick them up in store.

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As competition intensifies and consumers continue to seek value, retailers will need to double down on how to differentiate themselves and offer shoppers what they want, wherever they are.