Walmart Says "Yes" to All New Suppliers at Annual Manufacturing Summit

Walmart hosted its 4th annual U.S. Manufacturing Summit at corporate headquarters in Bentonville last week. Four hundred-fifty startup companies from forty states were invited to pitch 800 made-only-in-America products to hundreds of company merchants. But this year the world's largest retailer, for the first time, said "yes" to everyone--providing them a vendor place on Walmart dot com, as a sort of proving ground.