Walmart Associates Week

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the world’s largest retailer, Walmart and Sam’s Club Associates met in Fayetteville, Arkansas, for the 2022 Associates Week. For the first time since 2019, more than 14,000 domestic and international associates came together in person for a singularly inspiring experience. Walmart Associates Week features a lively program of events across three days. Business sessions include keynote presentations from Walmart and Sam’s Club leaders, top executives sharing fiscal results, and a diverse array of associate recognition and on-the-spot job promotions. Celebration events include nightly concerts and surprise celebrity appearances. Presentations and performances come from a sophisticated stage designed to immerse the audience in content, video, and electrifying graphics, driven by the latest in event and theater technology and featuring larger-than-life augmented reality (AR). The week culminates at Bud Walton Arena with the Associate Celebration, a live-streamed public production affectionately referred to internally by the Walmart Event Solutions team as the “mini-Grammys” and the “Super Bowl of Walmart.” Massive stage lifts, moment-defining foggers, and compelling mobilators (conveyors that allow the stages to move in any direction) brought the arena to life throughout the week, and the sports arena setting made the entire meeting feel like a true celebration, with associates and shareholders cheering on “team Walmart.”