Kim Souza

3 weeks ago | talkbusiness.net | Kim Souza

Walmart has announced a new platform for insurers and benefit managers that the company says can encourage healthy eating by using the data it collects on customers. The tool, “Everyday Health Signals,” is powered by artificial intelligence, and analyzes a consumer’s retail history on Walmart.com. Given that the retailer has 145 million customers each week in stores and online, it has a plethora of data, the release noted.

4 weeks ago | talkbusiness.net | Kim Souza

Where does the buck stop? That’s the question for courts to determine between present and past Tyson Foods execs and the survivors of former employees who died from their exposure to COVID-19 in the company’s Iowa meat plants. A recent ruling from the Iowa Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision that prohibited the families of the deceased workers from suing Tyson Foods and certain members of management for allegedly being negligent in pandemic safety operations.

1 month ago | talkbusiness.net | Kim Souza

The four largest Northwest Arkansas cities had mixed sales tax revenue results in their May reports. Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale cumulatively reported sales tax revenue of $47.662 million, down 12.28% from a year ago. All of that decline occurred in Bentonville, with sales tax revenue totaling $632,455, indicating that large rebates offset the revenue. The city’s revenue fell 72.91% from a year ago.

1 month ago | talkbusiness.net | Kim Souza

It’s been a little more than a year since Gov. Sarah Sanders signed an executive order to improve maternal and infant health. There has since been a flurry of activity to move the state out of last place on most metrics related to the issue. Stakeholders spent the summer working to develop a plan to address better access to care with the use of doulas and community health workers, reimbursement changes to how Medicaid covers pregnancy, and earlier coverage options for expectant mothers.

1 month ago | talkbusiness.net | Kim Souza

Bentonville-based Walmart confirmed Wednesday (May 21) it will cut 1,500 jobs within its U.S. and global technology businesses. Those losing jobs will be paid through August and may apply for other company roles if they so choose. Walmart U.S. CEO John Furner and Suresh Kumar, global chief technology officer, made the announcement in an internal email on Wednesday, which was made available to Talk Business & Politics.