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Grocers are looking to beef up their inventory ahead of the upcoming holiday shopping season and in preparation for a potential second wave of COVID-19.

The new hires will assist the company's e-commerce fulfillment centers across the country "prepare for an expected increase in online shopping."

The U.S. retailer has partnered with Quest Diagnostics and drone services provider DroneUp, to test-deliver collection kits in north Las Vegas from Tuesday and plans to conduct a trial run in Cheektowaga, New York in early October.

The company says its efforts will help to "combat the cascading loss of nature threatening the planet," the company wrote in a blog post.

Free Assembly, a modern brand of basic essentials for men and women, is the company's latest effort to expand its fashion portfolio. 

Trump and Walmart say the deal will bring 25,000 jobs to the U.S.

The increase will replace the annual increase employees normally receive in February or April, Walmart Chief Operating Officer Dacona Smith said.

The proposed expansion will allow the company to take on rivals like Walmart and Target, who have been able to offer same-day delivery of online orders to customers through their brick-and-mortar stores.

Under the retailer's new subscription service, which reportedly had been delayed multiple times due to the pandemic, shoppers will receive unlimited free delivery on more than 160,000 items from stores (shoppers must spend a minimum of $35), fuel discounts and "access to tools" that are said to make shopping even faster, according to Walmart.

The holidays will be here before you know it and already retailers are making changes to shopping plans. Here is the full list of who's closed for Turkey Day and how they are reinventing their Black Friday and holiday deals this shopping season

As voting rights organizations have warned of poll worker shortages -- largely due to the coronavirus pandemic -- companies have banded together to bolster the recruiting process and make voting easier for employees across the country.

The retail giant partnered with Flytrex, an end-to-end drone delivery company, to deliver select grocery and household essential items.

Walmart announced it will install the pods at 100 locations by the end of the year.

Could eggless omelets be the next food to see an "eggs-plosion" of consumer interest?

The Indian e-commerce company Flipkart launched a wholesale service for small businesses on Wednesday.

The big-box retailer has given only a vague rationale for why it would want TikTok, but it appears to boil down to its vast audience of young people.

TikTok is in play with the Microsoft- Walmart bid still in the lead

Walmart and Microsoft are joining forces on a bid for TikTok's US assets.

Big-box retailers enjoying strong sales and profits over the last couple of weeks partially attribute their success to pre-COVID-19 pandemic efforts to take on e-commerce giant Amazon.

Americans have faced many stresses in the pandemic, of which paper-towel scarcity is hardly among the worst. Yet the forces behind the shortage nearly six months into the crisis help explain the broad lack of U.S. preparedness that has made the pandemic worse than it might have been.