Walmart

On today's show, we take another trip to the Ozarks at Large archives.

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said the company finished the year with a quarter of strong results.

When a strong winter storm is approaching, what do we do around here? Get bread and milk. Lines at grocery stores Monday afternoon were long in anticipation of the snow. Turns out those stores are just as interested in the forecast as we are.

A new tool is designed to give health providers and insurers a deeper look at mental health in Arkansas. On today's show, we hear that the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement has a new Arkansas Acute Behavioral Events Dashboard. Also, a winter storm has area meteorologists working overtime, including Walmart’s in-house meteorologist. Plus, water resource groups are thinking about drinking water for a northwest Arkansas that has one million people.

State lawmakers questioned Walmart officials Monday about the company’s pullback from diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. The global retailer headquartered in Bentonville announced changes to DEI policies in November.

Procter & Gamble and Walmart are undeniably two of the most successful companies in America. For many years, the companies went along with their daily operations without thinking about each other as more than just another business: as an account for one or as a vendor. However, as Tom Muccio writes in his new book, "Collaborative Disruption," that changed in the early 1990s.

On this edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal, host Roby Brock brings us headlines from around the region, like Walmart's third-quarter earnings, new leaders at the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce and the UofA System, and the state's unemployment rate.

Bentonville’s global retail giant Walmart recently unveiled new technology and partnerships that may significantly reduce food waste. Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis visited a Walmart in Rogers to learn how this updated process works from company associates and executives.

On today's show, Walmart and their new technology to reduce food waste. Also, Fayetteville Public Library employees are unhappy about pay disparity. Plus, Lia Uribe brings us a new "Sound Perimeter" with music inspired by mountains.

On this week's edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal, Roby Brock interviews Erin Jernigan of Walmart Connect and nonprofit Next Up about the upcoming Walmart Women's Empowerment Summit. The event will take place on Sept. 26 and feature keynote speakers, panel discussions and audience exercises about striking a work-life balance.