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LED There Be Light: Walmart Is Sprucing Up Stores, Driving Down Bills With New Lights

Kristin Kloberdanz
February 13, 2018
Last fall, a woman shopping at Walmart in Livonia, Michigan, approached the store manager with an unsolicited comment. “I don’t know what you did in here,” she said, “but suddenly I can read your food labels.” The reason? Not the packaging. The lettering was the same size and color it had always been. The only difference: Walmart had changed the lights.
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A Lighting Revolution Is Being LED — Interview with Laura Phillips of Walmart

Laura Phillips Senior Vice President Of Sustainability At Walmart
February 16, 2016

Advances in LED technology are making lighting cheaper and smarter.

 

The LED is finally getting its day in the spotlight. More than 40 years after GE engineer Nick Holonyak invented the first LED light, innovations have transformed the technology from a humble source of lighting to a driver of energy efficiency and analytics.
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Ecomagination Ten Years Later: Proving that Efficiency and Economics Go Hand-in-Hand

October 29, 2015
When GE launched Ecomagination in 2005, it redefined what it meant to be “green” for a business. Ecomagination was more than just another idea – it was a groundbreaking strategy the company used to build more efficient machines that produce cleaner energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean water and cut its use, and make money while doing it.
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Save Money, Light Better: Walmart Will Switch 100s of Stores to GE LEDs

April 08, 2014

Fifty years ago, physicist Nick Holonyak was tinkering with lasers in his GE lab when he discovered the world’s first light-emitting diode. “We knew what happened and that we had a powerful way of converting electric current directly into light,” Holonyak says. “We had the ultimate lamp.” His team called it “the Magic One.”

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