Walmart partners with Shopify to expand online marketplace business
Walmart Inc has partnered with Canadian e-commerce firm Shopify Inc, as the world`s biggest brick-and-mortar retailer ramps up its efforts to capture a bigger slice of the coronavirus-driven surge in online shopping
Walmart Inc has partnered with Canadian e-commerce firm Shopify Inc, as the world`s biggest brick-and-mortar retailer ramps up its efforts to capture a bigger slice of the coronavirus-driven surge in online shopping.
U.S.- and TSX-listed shares of Shopify, which have doubled in value this year and briefly made the company the most valuable Canadian company in May, were up about 7% in morning trading on Monday.
Online sales at retailers, from cosmetics makers to pizza chains, have boomed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced customers to stay indoors.
Bentonville, Arkansas-based Walmart said it expected to add 1,200 Shopify sellers to its marketplace this year and that the partnership was focused on adding small- and medium-sized U.S. businesses to its platform, Walmart.com. (https://bit.ly/2YvxHOg)
Last month, Walmart reported a 74% surge in quarterly e-commerce sales and discontinued operations at e-commerce start-up Jet.com, which it had acquired for $3.3 billion in 2016.
Shopify said the merchants would be able to connect their accounts to their Walmart seller accounts, before they could list their products separately on Walmart`s website. (https://bit.ly/2AsYF19)
"Walmart is the 3rd biggest marketplace in the U.S. behind Amazon and Ebay, both of whom are already channel partners for Shopify, so this partnership is a natural next step and frankly, a long awaited one," Eight Capital analyst Suthan Sukumar said.
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Shopify has announced similar partnerships with Facebook and Pinterest in recent weeks.
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