Walmart's Online Sales Growth Comes at a Cost [The Motley Fool]
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Walmart's Online Sales Growth Comes at a Cost Walmart ( NYSE:WMT Amazon NASDAQ:AMZN While Walmart's top-line growth is strong -- the company expects online sales to grow another % this year -- its bottom line is suffering as a result. The company is actually taking a loss on its online operations. Management expects those losses to get worse before they get better as the company invests in infrastructure, people, online grocery, and Store No. 8 initiatives. Investors seem to have come to terms with the pressure on margins in the near term, but there's no guarantee Walmart will be able to overcome Amazon and other competitors to make its operations profitable. Image source: Walmart. Where's Walmart's online sales growth coming from? The bulk of Walmart's online sales growth over the last couple years seems to stem from the grocery category. Walmart expanded online grocery pickup to over ,000 more stores in fiscal 09, reaching a total of ,00 stores. It plans to add ,000 more locations t
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