‘None of us wants to be Sears:’ A Walmart exec explains why the retailer will be making more ‘aggressive’ strides into healthcare

• Walmart’s VP of health and wellness transformation said the retailer will be making more aggressive strides into healthcare.
• Marcus Osborne highlighted a few key projects that have been successful, including the self-service health kiosks that it has installed in stores and free health assessments.
• Osborne said that retailers have to evolve to cater to what consumers need, or risk going bankrupt like Sears.

Walmart is gearing up to play a more active role in healthcare.

The biggest U.S. retailer has been testing a number of approaches for both its workers and customers, and is preparing to play a more “aggressive” role, Marcus Osborne, Walmart’s vice president of health and wellness transformation, said at the Financial Times Digital...

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