Walmart Corporation

What Walmart Corporation does

Walmart Corporation, founded in 1962 and headquartered in Bentonville, United States, operates a large-scale retail business comprising discount stores, supermarkets, and an e-commerce marketplace. Per the available firmographic description, the company serves a broad general consumer base, with its primary customer segment identified as 'Consumer Retail Shoppers' purchasing collectible gaming and trading card products. The documented evidence base is narrow: the only product-specific data point is a Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy Play Booster Box listed at $174.99, against Amazon's $222.19 listing for the same SKU, illustrating an explicit price-competition posture toward the dominant e-commerce rival.

The company's go-to-market motion is described as a retail storefront model that pairs physical store presence with online sales, and its pricing model is unit-based, one-time perpetual pricing per SKU. Distribution is domestic, targeting individual consumers and SMBs through both physical retail locations and a digital storefront. Pricing for the sampled SKU is publicly disclosed. The input material does not include details on technology stack, product breadth beyond collectible gaming, headcount, revenue, leadership, partnerships, or M&A activity.

Multiple firmographic fields are inconsistent or unpopulated in the source data: company type is recorded as 'private' with no public ticker, revenue is null, the IPO status field reads 'private,' company history is empty, and the website URL resolves to ebsco.com rather than a Walmart corporate domain. Consequently, this description reflects only what the input material explicitly supports and should be read with those data-quality limitations in mind.

Name

Walmart Corporation

Website

https://ebsco.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1962

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Walmart Corporation, founded in 1962 and headquartered in Bentonville, US, operates discount stores, supermarkets, and an e-commerce marketplace serving general consumer shoppers with competitively priced collectible gaming and retail products across physical and digital channels.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Discount Retail

NAICS

All Other General Merchandise Retailers (455219), Hobby, Toy, and Game Retailers (45912)

SIC

Retail-Misc General Merchandise Stores (5399), Retail-Hobby, Toy & Game Shops (5945)

akta.pro primary industry

Off-Price Toys, Games & Family General Merchandise Retail (CRAEACAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

General Merchandise Variety-Value Mass Merchandisers (CRAGABAH), Toy Stores & Games Retail (CRALAIAF)

Keywords

• Discount retail stores
• Online marketplace
• Consumer goods
• Grocery retail
• E-commerce platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Bentonville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Retail Sales: Revenue generated through physical retail store sales and online e-commerce transactions. Product categories include collectible gaming products sold at competitive price points.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Walmart Corporation operates a network of discount retail stores and supermarkets, alongside an e-commerce marketplace, selling consumer goods at competitive price points. The product assortment spans everyday household items to collectible gaming products, with physical retail locations providing immediate pickup and online storefronts enabling home delivery and price comparison against major e-commerce competitors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy Play Booster Box

Quantifiable outcome

• Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy Play Booster Box priced at $174.99, undercutting Amazon's price of $222.19 by $47.20

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Amazon: Amazon is the dominant US e-commerce and general-merchandise retailer and is the explicit price benchmark in the source data. It competes head-on with Walmart's online collectible-gaming offering, making it the most comparable competitor on channel, assortment breadth, and pricing dynamics.
• Dollar Tree: Dollar Tree operates an extreme-value discount and variety-store network across the US and Canada, including Family Dollar. Its multi-price-point and single-price-point value formats compete head-on with Walmart's discount retail proposition and lower-income household base.
• TJX Companies: TJX operates the largest off-price apparel and home retail network in the US (T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods). Its treasure-hunt, value-oriented merchandising model is comparable to Walmart's disclosed price-competitive discount positioning in collectibles and general merchandise.
• Dollar General: Dollar General is one of the largest US extreme-value retailers, with thousands of small-format stores selling consumables, household basics, and seasonal/discretionary merchandise at low price points. It competes with Walmart on the value-retail proposition and physical-store reach.
• Costco Wholesale: Costco is a large-format, value-oriented general-merchandise retailer carrying a deep, fast-turn assortment of consumer goods alongside grocery. It overlaps with Walmart on the broad general-merchandise and value retail proposition, though it does not specialize in the hobby/toy category.

Direct peers

• Target Corporation: Target operates a national mass-merchandise and grocery retail network with an integrated e-commerce platform that competes across nearly every category Walmart serves, including toys, games, and collectibles. It is the closest direct peer on store format, customer demographic, and omnichannel strategy.
• GameStop Corp. GameStop is the leading US specialty retailer of video games, gaming hardware, and collectible gaming products including trading cards. It competes most directly with Walmart in the trading-card collectibles category and serves the same hobbyist customer base.
• Five Below: Five Below is a US extreme-value small-format retailer focused on discretionary items (toys, games, collectibles, seasonal goods) almost all priced at low single-digit points. It is comparable on the collectibles/toy assortment and on the multi-price-point value discount format directly addressed in the candidate codes.
• Big Lots: Big Lots is a US closeout and liquidation-oriented general-merchandise discounter selling household goods, toys, seasonal items, and other consumer products at value price points. It is comparable to Walmart on the broad general-merchandise-at-low-price position and on the off-price/closeout sourcing model.

Regional players

• Best Buy Co. Best Buy is a US specialty general-merchandise retailer (consumer electronics, appliances) with growing gaming and collectibles exposure. It overlaps with Walmart on broad general-merchandise retail and on the gaming-adjacent assortment, though it is far more category-specialized.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Walmart
• Facebookfacebook.com/walmart
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/walmart

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A34 records

Investments48 records

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