US-based retailer Walmart is combining its teams of buyers for Walmart.com and the company’s stores.
The restructuring of the buyer teams was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, said that Walmart is combining the two groups to decrease conflicts over the pricing of products online and in-store. The two sides of Walmart’s business have separate chief executives. Marc Lore, the founder of Jet.com, leads Walmart’s ecommerce in US John Furner leads the store side of the business.
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