Walmart Canada plans to open new Supercentre in Kingston, Ont. - 🇨🇦 Grocery Business Canada

To better serve its customers in Kingston, Ontario, a new Walmart Supercentre is expected to open in 2027. Walmart Canada will become the anchor tenant in the new SmartCentres development at Division St. & Highway 401, enhancing everyday convenience for the surrounding community. The approximately 142,000 square-foot Kingston East Walmart Supercentre will feature:

Walmart is doubling down on its pledge not to use AI, customer data or digital shelf labels to set personalized prices for its shoppers. In a public letter Monday, Dan Bartlett, Walmart's executive vice president of corporate affairs, challenged what he described as repeated "mischaracterizations" by Lindsay Owens, author of the recently released book "Gouged," about Walmart's pricing practices and use of technology. "The facts are straightforward. We price products, not people," Bartlett wrote. "Walmart does not and will not use an individual customer’s personal information, income, shopping history, urgency or willingness to pay to set an individualized price. We do not engage in dynamic pricing, raising prices in response to a hot afternoon or an approaching snowstorm, for example. " SAM'S CLUB EXEC SAYS MEMBERS INCREASINGLY WANT FRESH FOOD 'ON THEIR OWN TERMS' Walmart is doubling down on its pledge not to use AI, customer data or digital shelf labels to set personalized prices for shoppers. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Bartlett defended the retailer's use of digital shelf labels, saying the technology does not identify customers or independently set prices.