Walmart plans to invest some $700 million in Guatemala over the next five years, the company's Central America head said on Wednesday. The announcement by regional executive Cristina Ronski came during the groundbreaking of a new store in the Central American country. It comes days after the company said during the groundbreaking of a new distribution center in Costa Rica that it would invest around $600 million in that country over the next five years.
What we saw in the Q1 earnings season was a resilient and steadily improving profitability picture, both in terms of the growth rate and the evolving revisions trend. But which sectors had an outsized impact?
“Many consumer pocketbooks are still stretched,” Walmart CFO John Rainey told analysts. “We see the effect of that in our business mix.”