Walmart scraps personal shopping service, 300 jobs lost

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Walmart is closing its personal shopping service after failing to find investors for the struggling operation.

Jetblack – a text message-based concierge service – will cease deliveries on February 21, resulting in most of its 350 staff losing their jobs.

Walmart attempted to spin off the struggling business after the personal shopping service gained fewer than 1,000 customers last year.

 

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