{"id":263054,"date":"2026-06-03T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/furner-says-technology-is-important-but-associates-are-at-the-heart-of-walmarts-people-led-business\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:10:28","slug":"furner-says-technology-is-important-but-associates-are-at-the-heart-of-walmarts-people-led-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/furner-says-technology-is-important-but-associates-are-at-the-heart-of-walmarts-people-led-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Furner says technology is important, but associates are at the heart of Walmart&#8217;s &#8216;people led&#8217; business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/massmarketretailers.com\/furner-says-technology-is-important-but-associates-are-at-the-heart-of-walmarts-people-led-business\/\">Furner says technology is important, but associates are at the heart of Walmart&#8217;s &#8216;people led&#8217; business<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/massmarketretailers.com\/furner-says-technology-is-important-but-associates-are-at-the-heart-of-walmarts-people-led-business\/\">https:\/\/massmarketretailers.com\/furner-says-technology-is-important-but-associates-are-at-the-heart-of-walmarts-people-led-business\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 11:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"massmarketretailers.com\">massmarketretailers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning John Furner, Walmart\u2019s new president and CEO, kicked off activities for members of the media during the company\u2019s annual Associates Week by engaging in a fireside chat with reporters. Centered on the theme Making a Difference That Matters, the week is designed to put the spotlight on how associates at all levels of the company are upping their game as they meet the needs of Walmart customers and Sam\u2019s Club members, and help redefine the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0It will also give the media an opportunity to hear from Walmart\u2019s reconfigured leadership team, which in addition to Furner \u2013 who succeeded Doug McMillon as CEO earlier this year \u2013 includes the CEOs of its primary business units: David Guggina at Walmart U.S., Latriece Watkins at Sam\u2019s Club, and Chris Nicholas at Walmart International.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Illuminating what he calls a new era in retail, Furner spoke about the importance of technology to Walmart&#8217;s business, and why it is critical that the company maintains its &#8220;learning culture.&#8221; He also emphasized that associates will remain central to Walmart&#8217;s success.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/massmarketretailers.com\/furner-says-technology-is-important-but-associates-are-at-the-heart-of-walmarts-people-led-business\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furner says technology is important, but associates are at the heart of Walmart&#8217;s &#8216;people led&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/d5\/56\/d5565e70-3c67-4547-9c79-7758ce6fc700\/content\/images\/size\/w1200\/2026\/06\/walmart-furner.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263056,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263054\/revisions\/263056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}