Walmart and Sam's Club refine customer-centric research
Geoffrey PrecourtWarc
Even Walmart doesn't get it right all the time. But the retailer never stops working at perfection. In a panel discussing "How to embed consumer insights throughout the organization" at the Advertising Research Foundation's 2013 Re:think conference, Ramón Portilla, senior director/insights operations and membership for Sam's Club – Walmart's wholesale unit – revealed: "We've been trying to get more and more strategic."
Ramón Portilla discusses customer-centric researchPhoto credit: Dan Collazo
For Sam's Club, and its parent, that meant the research function "was commissioned to really excel at synthesizing, integrating...