Walmart plans to double down on supercenters to take on Amazon: Report

Walmart has spent heavily on remodeling its stores, including revamping its produce departments with wider aisles and displays that echo premium grocers

Walmart Inc plans to place its giant brick-and-mortar stores at the centre of its strategy to take on its web-based retail rival Amazon.com Inc, Dow Jones reported.
 
Walmart President and CEO Doug McMillon, outlining the plans at a strategy meeting, pitched a vision where the company’s stores and its retail shopping model is the base of an expanding array of complementary business lines, according to Dow Jones.
 
The ‘supercenters’ — shopping meccas of about 180,000 square feet where one can buy everything from fresh fruits and vegetables to clothes, televisions and sports equipment — could be the heart