WMT 9.12% decrease; red down pointing triangle reported its smallest sales gain in more than six years as some Americans continue to spend cautiously especially when shopping at the retailer’s physical stores.
On Thursday, Walmart said U.S. comparable sales, those from store and digital channels operating for the past 12 months, rose 2.6%. That is the smallest quarterly increase the retailer has reported since 2020. The number was hurt by new pharmacy-pricing regulations, without which Walmart would have had a 3.4% lift, the company said.
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Terrible look for bottom half of the K and US consumers