Halloween is still a month away, but Walmart is ready for Christmas.
Walmart on Thursday said its getting the ball rolling on its year-end holiday shopping season at its stores and online as early as next month.
Noting that more than half of its customers make their holiday shopping plans in October, the retailer said it will start offering deeper deals on popular gift categories such as toys, home decor, electronics and beauty products.
At the same time, Walmart said it also has boosted supplies of what it expects will be holiday hot sellers, including TVs, tablets, wireless headphones and phones, robotic vacuums and furniture.
We know that our customers wallets are under pressure and value is always top of mind. They trust us to consistently offer low prices on their everyday essentials, and we want to make it easy for them to find that same value when holiday shopping, which is starting earlier than ever this year, said Tom Ward, executive vice president and chief eCommerce officer for Walmart U.S., in an interview with CNNBusiness.