2019 Retailer of the Year: Walmart is reshaping grocery from the ground up

What’s the one thing consumers can’t buy? Time. “Or is it?” Doug McMillon, president and CEO of Walmart Inc., wondered in his message to stockholders this past June. Certainly, most of the innovations that retailers have been furiously pursuing can be said to have been designed to save time, enhance convenience or otherwise make it easier for consumers to acquire their basic daily needs. Among retailers that sell groceries, Walmart has been head and shoulders above the pack in the reinvention of routine buying and selling.