Sam's Club Tech Walmart's Sam's Club is to open a Dallas store where it can test out new retail automation technologies, with a strong focus on the operation's existing Scan & Go app. New features will include an auto-filling shopping list and maps of stores that show where everything is—and naturally, at some point maps that take that automated shopping list and show the shopper where to walk to pick everything up. Fortune
Walmart Withdrawal Walmart has quietly withdrawn from Google's Shopping Actions ordering service and Express delivery service. It's a big blow for Google's hopes of taking on Amazon in the e-commerce sphere. For Walmart, it signals a shift towards relying on in-house capabilities to do battle with Jeff Bezos. Bloomberg
Walmart posts its best first quarter in nine years Walmart Inc. advanced after meeting sales estimates and indicating that shoppers will absorb some of the costs from President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports. Comparable sales for Walmart stores in the U.S. climbed 3.4 percent in the first quarter, its best for the period in nine years. (Ad Age)
Considering all the good, well run companies out there in our world that you would rather buy something from than Walmart, why would anyone buy Walmart?