What it is
Walmart Inc., filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on 13 March 2026 for the year ended 31 January 2026.
The annual report for the fiscal year ended 31 January 2026. Net sales were 706,413 million dollars, membership and other income 6,750 million, total revenues 713,163 million, operating income 29,825 million and net income attributable to Walmart 21,893 million. The margins are computed from those figures, not stated by the company.
The figures span the whole company, the club and international businesses included, so they are not a grocery-pure margin. The filing describes checkout options in general terms and gives no count of stores with scan-and-go or of transactions that use it.
What the commerce leader should take from it
- The largest supercenter operator runs at roughly twice the operating margin of a pure supermarket. Scale and mix, not grocery margin, explain the gap.
- No filing discloses time waiting in line, scan-and-go adoption or the labor hours the front end uses. Those are the store’s own numbers to count.
- Walmart is at Leading overall in this release; the 16 hypermarkets it belongs to are the format where scan-and-go is a habit rather than a pilot.
Where to start
Finding 2.3 cites it for the scale at which the supercenter front end runs, and as a reminder that the queue is not in any filing. Before a smart-cart pilot, measure time in line at peak in your twenty busiest stores; that is the number the filing cannot give you.
Keep in mind
Whole-company figures across three businesses and many countries; not a grocery margin, and silent on checkout operations.