Wal-Mart stands to benefit from this week’s INOV8 Arkansas Patent of the Week. Some Arkansas innovation will fuel Arkansas’ own retail giant once Wal-Mart begins implementing the device that will pre-scan customers’ merchandise in their shopping cart while they wait in the check-out line.
The device was patented on August 18 by Dung Nguyen and Aime [...]

Sam Walton chose not to participate in the recession of 1991. Innovation was the key, a Wal-Mart executive told the Northwest Arkansas Business Conference and Expo today in Rogers.

Davis kicked off the luncheon address quoting Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Sam’s Club founder Sam Walton from a 1991 comment during that year’s recession.
“Mr. Walton, when asked [...]

As Congress debates a Climate Change bill, and as companies like Wal-Mart encouraging sustainability, big business, entrepreneurs and other start-ups see a future — and big profits — in carbon accounting, which allows companies to track their carbon footprint.