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Walmart’s International Omnichannel Expansion

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Far from its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart is seeking to deliver stronger omnichannel offerings internationally. The retailer recently announced that it was acquiring online marketplace Cornershop Inc., Through the service, consumers can order goods from pharmacies, supermarkets and specialty food retailers.

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Walmart Bot Strategy Is Not To Use Them

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They say robots could replace as many as 38 percent of retail workers in the next 10 years, starting with cashiers. When the discount department store exploded on the market in the 1990s, three decades after its inception by Sam Walton, it played a major role in shaping the retail market for many years to follow.

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The Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: The Delivery Edition 

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The clock is ticking — holiday shipping deadlines are approaching and the last of the holiday shopping procrastinators are either rushing to order online or resigning themselves to a last-minute trip to a crowded mall or shopping center to tough it out in line with all the other procrastinators.

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Whole Paycheck: Amazon And Walmart Use Drones, Self-Driving Trucks And 767s to Beat Each Other At Delivery 

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Walmart Gets Green Light to Start Drone Delivery Near Arkansas HQ . Walmart this week got local zoning approval from the city of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, near its company headquarters, to start using the chain’s local store as a drone launch-and-delivery hub.

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Amazon Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Better Delivery By Any (And Every) Means

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This week was one of the latter, as Walmart hosted its investor meeting in Arkansas and Amazon decided this week’s menu of technological innovations in retail would be an all-you-can-eat buffet. That Amazon is making a major push into apparel retail is, at this point, well known to everyone. And that was just the serious stuff.

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Retail’s Adapt-Or-Die Moment: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Commerce

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Retail is under pressure to crack the AI code. After all, corporations in every industry are scrambling to adapt and integrate artificial intelligence into their products — and retail is no exception. 15-Min Flash briefing: Can AI Save Physical retail? Using CB Insights data, we dug into the changing retail landscape.

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