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Walmart Starts E-Commerce Site to Target Small Businesses, Taking On Amazon

  • Walmart Business targets small and midsize companies
  • Rivals like Amazon wooed small businesses during the pandemic

A worker pulls shopping carts outside a Walmart store in Montreal, Quebec.

Photographer: Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg
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Walmart Inc., which became the world’s largest retailer by serving everyday shoppers, is now targeting a larger share of business customers with a website aimed at small and midsize companies.

The initiative, called Walmart Business, is designed to offer a one-stop shop for office supplies, furniture, food and electronics, Ashley Hubka, the senior vice president managing the program, said in an interview. Walmart is also pitching a business membership plan that dangles extra savings.