Walmart Explores Its Own Streaming Service

Retail giant working with veteran TV executive on project that would undercut rivals and target Middle America

Walmart Inc. is exploring a subscription video streaming service that would seek to challenge Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. by offering programming that targets Middle America, according to people familiar with the plans.

Planning is still in the early stages and Walmart hasn’t given the project a greenlight, the people said. But a decision to move forward could come by late summer or early fall, according to one of these people.

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