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It's Thursday August 17th. Welcome to Market Flori. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today.

You know what, Aaron Bush works on so many different services here at the Motley

Fool. I hesitate to name them all. But Aaron Bush, in studio, thanks for being here. Yeah, thank you.

We've got retail and we've got not just retail, we've got two of the biggest retailers in the

world reporting earnings. We've got Walmart and Alibaba and we're going to dip into the full mail bag to talk about

e-sports. But let's start with Walmart. Their second quarter profits and revenue came in higher

than expected. Their online sales up 67%. The stock is still down a little

bit today but if nothing else the online sales is growing it's not just that

it's growing it's growing significantly.

Yeah, and without a doubt that's a good thing.

The way I personally feel about this quarter is that I'm happy that it wasn't awful.

Right.

And that's just because there's so much bloodshed out there these days.

I'll take I'll take 2% revenue growth. I feel pretty good about that when it comes to a

big box retailer. I mean, I mean pretty clearly 2%

revenue growth. Most of that was from comps and traffic increases. There was some

price increases along with that.

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