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    In Push For Convenience, Walmart Wants To Help Shoppers Assemble Furniture, Mount TVs

    Walmart has partnered with the app Handy to link customers with home-services professionals. Major retail companies are in a big movement, trying to become more than just places that sell you things.
    by Alina Selyukh Mar 19, 2018 1 minute
    Shoppers look at televisions at a Walmart during Black Friday sales in 2012 in Quincy, Mass.

    There's a big movement among major retail companies to become more than just places that sell you things. In the latest example, Walmart is partnering with a home-services app called Handy to give shoppers a deal on professional help assembling furniture

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