Buyer’s remorse be gone, Walmart puts returns in fast lane

Meanwhile, the big-box retailer expects US e-commerce sales to grow by 40%. For example, we can look at a company’s profit margin, which tells us how much of the company’s total sales revenue was kept in earnings.

The technology behind the Walmart Pay has been designed basically to speed up the returns in-store for which the company is offering mobile payment.

While Amazon continues to stifle Walmart’s influence with its own brick-and-mortar stores, the chain of supermarkets improves customer care services. The gain follows a 17 percent increase this year through Monday’s close.

The company has been increasing its e-commerce efforts recently. Currently, the stock has a 1 Year Price Target of $83.49.

Additionally, as early as December, customers returning select items will see an option in the Walmart app allowing them to instantly receive their refund without even making a trip to the store to physically return the item. Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT) has risen 13.83% since October 10, 2016 and is uptrending.

U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart has continued to improve its customer service and user experience this week, announcing improvements made to the efficiency of its returns service. It is also planning to do the same returns process for items bought from third-party sellers on its site. The Walmart U.S. segment includes its mass merchant concept in the United States operating under the Walmart or Wal-Mart brands, as well as digital retail.

The lanes were created specifically for Wal-Mart’s Pharmacy and Money Service customers – those that fill their prescriptions at Wal-Mart, and those that transfer money at the retailer’s stores. It opened 40 new supercenters this year, down from 60 supercenter openings the last fiscal year. The company has noted that 90 percent of Americans live within 10 miles of a Walmart store. That represents a slowdown from about 20 this year.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) has the market capitalization of $235.04 Billion. They expect $0.97 EPS, down 1.02 % or $0.01 from last year’s $0.98 per share. Foster & Motley Inc.’s holdings in Wal-Mart Stores were worth $11,311,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

“We feel good about where we are as a company”, Brett Biggs, CFO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc, said in a statement. Store shoppers who become online customers spend almost twice as much overall.

A key to Wal-Mart’s e-commerce push is leveraging its extensive network of physical store locations.

In the second quarter, 62 percent of all U.S. internet users visited Amazon, a “remarkably high number”, according to Wells Fargo analysts, illustrating just how deeply the company has penetrated the online market.