Everyone, including Forbes, is reporting that H&R Block has signed an agreement with Walmart to do in store tax preparation starting in December.
So What?
It is not the first, nor will it be the last, time that HRB has offices in Walmart. Walmart always has a tax prep firm in their stores during tax season. They don't care which one it is and this year it will be both HRB and Jackson Hewitt. JH and Walmart signed an agreement in September. JH will be in 2800 Walmart stores. So for every one HRB kisok there will be almost 10 JH kisoks.
Now if Walmart allows both JH and HRB to set up kisoks in the same stores, that would be news.
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You couldn't pay me enough money to set up an office in Walmart! Can you imagine the due diligence??
Posted by: Cindy Galford | October 31, 2011 at 06:22 PM
Looking back on the customers that are on the peopleofwalmart site... uhhh, no thanks!
Posted by: Valarie Hill | October 31, 2011 at 08:03 PM
Bravo. I think Walmart ought to set up a kiosk for every business under the sun in their store. Walmart is a slick marketing business. Block would be silly not to jump at this opportunity.
Posted by: Craig | November 02, 2011 at 09:46 AM