How Walmart weathers a new data-driven shopping experience
Geoffrey PrecourtWarc
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody can do anything about it.
Except, of course, Walmart.
"Our merchants are constantly talking about weather," Stephen Quinn, evp/cmo at Walmart US, recalled. "It's always bad, by the way, and it's always impacting us negatively.
"So we sat down with a weather company," Quinn told a "CMO Roundtable: Marketing in the Digital Age" panel at the Association of National Advertisers' (ANA) 2014 "Masters of Marketing" conference in Orlando, Florida.
"And they basically said, 'We have all this weather data and we're constantly...