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Walmart (NYSE: WMT)
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, 1969.
AI’s Next Act Is Financial Decision-Making
March 30, 2026
Last year, Big Tech companies purchased 68.4 million permanent carbon removal credits, a 181% year-over-year increase, according to CNBC. Pricing is increasingly being shaped by artificial intelligence (AI) systems that determine ...Read moreDavid’s Bridal CEO Kelly Cook on Betting Big and Knowing When Not To
March 30, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Kelly Cook of David’s Bridal When I sat down with Kelly Cook, it didn’t feel like an interview. It felt like we were getting right back ...Read moreGen Z Digital Wallet Use Climbs 21% as Budgets Tighten
March 30, 2026
Financial stress is doing more than pushing consumers to hunt for lower prices. It is also changing how they organize purchases, where they shop and which payment tools they trust ...Read moreCoca-Cola CEO Says He Stepped Down Due to Demands of AI Transformation
March 26, 2026
The upcoming changes driven by artificial intelligence (AI) played a role in the decision of Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey to step down from his role, Quincey told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” ...Read moreAmazon and Walmart Move the Retail War Past the Buy Button
March 26, 2026
The traditional eCommerce funnel ended at checkout. Once a consumer clicked “buy,” the retailer’s job was to deliver the product quickly and accurately. That framework pushed retail competition toward a familiar ...Read moreFinTechs Delay IPOs as Markets Scrutinize Revenue Models
March 26, 2026
Public listings have long been the preferred exit for FinTechs seeking new avenues to raise capital and, arguably, to enhance their visibility and reputations. And especially for payments firms, trading platforms ...Read moreOpenAI Enhances Product Discovery With Visual Shopping
March 24, 2026
OpenAI has added new features that it said will enhance the experience of shopping within ChatGPT. The updates include more visual shopping in ChatGPT and support for product discovery by the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), ...Read moreFedEx Teams With OneRail to Offer Same-Day Local Delivery
March 24, 2026
FedEx has debuted a program designed to let customers get deliveries within two hours. FedEx SameDay Local, introduced Tuesday (March 24) in partnership with last-mile delivery solution company OneRail, lets shoppers choose two-hour or end-of-day ...Read moreSplit Spending: Survival vs. Splurge Defines the New Consumer
March 24, 2026
The most endangered species in retail isn’t brick-and-mortar. It’s the mid-market shopper share of wallet. Findings in the March edition of the PYMNTS Intelligence “Share of Wallet: Amazon vs. Walmart” report ...Read moreWalmart’s Digital Price Tags Face Pushback From Lawmakers
March 22, 2026
Walmart announced plans recently to bring digital price tags to its stores by year’s end. However, the retail giant’s effort is happening as lawmakers have begun to criticize digital shelf labels ...Read more
Uber Launches Exchangeable Bond Deal Featuring Rare Structure
May 20, 2025
A $1.2 billion exchangeable bond deal announced last week by Uber Technologies reportedly features a rare structure that is appealing to investors and to Uber. The deal is tied to Uber’s ...Read moreAutonomous Transport Could Drive Trucking Into Digital Transformation’s Fast Lane
May 15, 2024
In America, we move most of our goods by road. This makes trucks and 18-wheelers a crucial, even definitive, part of any supply chain. It also highlights the compounding impact of ...Read moreUber Eats and Waymo Roll Out Autonomous Delivery in Phoenix
April 3, 2024
Uber is expanding its Phoenix-based partnership with autonomous vehicle company Waymo. The company announced Wednesday (April 3) that it is now offering Uber Eats deliveries in the Arizona capital via Waymo vehicles. “Starting today in Phoenix, ...Read moreContinental and Aurora Finalize Autonomous Trucking System Design
January 5, 2024
Mobility technology firm Continental and self-driving technology company Aurora Innovation have finalized the design of a scalable autonomous trucking system and plan to start production in 2027. Finalizing the design and ...Read moreWaymo Via, Uber Freight Sign Partnership on Self-Driving Trucks
June 7, 2022
Waymo Via, Alphabet’s self-driving trucking unit, has signed a deal with Uber’s Freight business to help future customers deploy autonomous trucks more easily, Reuters wrote Tuesday (June 7). The partnership could ...Read moreSelf-Driving Truck Hauls 40K Pounds Of Butter Across US
December 30, 2019
Silicon Valley startup Plus.ai is thought to be the first company to deploy a self-driving commercial truck to haul 40,000 pounds of butter roughly 42 hours cross-country from Tulare, California ...Read moreWaymo Returns Its Self-Driving Trucks To Arizona
May 30, 2019
Waymo‘s self-driving trucks are making a return to Arizona. The company’s self-driving, Class 8, big-rig trucks haven’t been in the state for more than a year, though they were first tested ...Read moreDriverless Trucks Hog the Highway to an Autonomous Vehicle Future
October 2, 2018
Driverless cars are indeed coming to roads soon enough — the U.K.’s transport secretary, in fact, recently predicted that those vehicles would appear there within four years. Even so, it might ...Read moreEx-Uber, Otto Exec’s Autonomous Truck Startup Snags $40M
August 8, 2018
Kodiak Robotics, a self-driving vehicle startup, announced that it raised $40 million in Series A funding, led by global investment firm Battery Ventures. CRV, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Tusk Ventures ...Read moreDaimler Unveils eMobility Unit For Trucks And Buses
June 6, 2018
Combining its efforts from five divisions, Daimler Trucks is rolling out an eMobility unit. The idea behind the unit is to speed up the creation of battery-powered engines for use ...Read more
Physical Intelligence Seeks $1 Billion as Robotics Interest Grows
March 29, 2026
Robotics startup Physical Intelligence is reportedly in talks on a $1 billion funding round. That round would raise the company’s valuation to north of $11 billion, Bloomberg News reported Friday (March ...Read moreAmazon Eyes Delivery Robots as MIT Tackles Warehouse Bottlenecks
March 26, 2026
Amazon has spent more than a decade automating its logistics network. The company has already deployed more than 1 million robots across its operations, and its recent acquisitions have steadily ...Read moreAmazon Targets Consumer Robotics Market With Fauna Acquisition
March 25, 2026
Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, a firm that designs and assembles humanoid robots that can be used around people and are likely to be marketed to consumers. The acquisition was announced in posts ...Read moreGig Economy Becomes New AI Training Ground
March 20, 2026
DoorDash on Thursday (March 19) launched a paid task program that redirects its 8 million U.S. delivery couriers toward a new kind of work: generating training data for artificial intelligence ...Read moreAmazon Buys Robot Maker RIVR to Win Last-Mile Delivery Race
March 19, 2026
Amazon has acquired RIVR, a company that uses physical artificial intelligence and wheeled-legged robots to automate doorstep delivery. RIVR CEO and Co-Founder Marko Bjelonic announced the acquisition in a Thursday (March ...Read moreNvidia Launches AI for Hospital Operating Rooms
March 18, 2026
Robots are coming to hospitals, but they are not there to replace surgeons. Instead, they observe, coordinate and carry loads, tasks that consume large amounts of clinical staff time and ...Read moreInvestors Bet Big on Industry-Specific AI and Robotics
March 16, 2026
Physical artificial intelligence and vertical AI startups are drawing investor attention as venture funding flows toward companies building systems designed either to operate in the physical world or automate specialized ...Read moreMind Robotics Raises $500 Million to Improve Industrial Robots
March 11, 2026
Mind Robotics has raised $500 million to develop what it calls “AI-enabled” robotic systems. The company’s Series A round, expected to close later this month, follows $115 million in seed funding ...Read moreRhoda AI Raises $450 Million to Automate Manufacturing and Logistics
March 10, 2026
Robotic intelligence firm Rhoda AI emerged from stealth Tuesday (March 10) and announced it raised $450 million in a Series A funding round. The company is building a robot foundation model that combines ...Read moreOpenAI Robotics Head Quits Over Pentagon Partnership
March 8, 2026
OpenAI’s robotics lead has left the company due to its partnership with the Pentagon. Caitlin Kalinowski announced her departure from the artificial intelligence startup in a post on the social media ...Read more
Meta Aims to Share Brick-and-Mortar Success Stories With Wearables Retailers
March 30, 2026
Meta aims to share what it learns at its Meta Lab stores with the retailers of its artificial intelligence (AI)- and virtual reality (VR)-enabled wearables, Retail TouchPoints reported Monday (March 30). The company operates ...Read moreCVS to Expand Retail Footprint After Shrinking for 4 Years
March 30, 2026
CVS Health plans to expand its retail footprint this year after contracting it over the past four years, Bloomberg reported Monday (March 30). The retail pharmacy chain plans to open 60 stores ...Read moreDavid’s Bridal CEO Kelly Cook on Betting Big and Knowing When Not To
March 30, 2026Watch more: Monday Conversation With Kelly Cook of David’s Bridal When I sat down with Kelly Cook, it didn’t feel like an interview. It felt like we were getting right back ...Read moreMacy’s AI Chatbot Quadruples Customer Spending
March 26, 2026
An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping assistant that was launched by Macy’s on Monday (March 23) has most often been used by customers to suggest products for completing an outfit and to ...Read moreRetailers Say Protracted Iran War Will Drive Up Prices
March 26, 2026
Retailers are cautioning that a lengthy war in Iran could mean higher prices in stores. As CNBC reported Thursday (March 25), among the companies sounding this warning is British clothing seller ...Read moreAmazon and Walmart Move the Retail War Past the Buy Button
March 26, 2026The traditional eCommerce funnel ended at checkout. Once a consumer clicked “buy,” the retailer’s job was to deliver the product quickly and accurately. That framework pushed retail competition toward a familiar ...Read moreOpenAI Enhances Product Discovery With Visual Shopping
March 24, 2026OpenAI has added new features that it said will enhance the experience of shopping within ChatGPT. The updates include more visual shopping in ChatGPT and support for product discovery by the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), ...Read moreDollar General Names Grocery Industry Vet Jerry Fleeman as CEO
March 24, 2026
Dollar General has chosen 35-year grocery industry veteran Jerry Fleeman as its new CEO. Fleeman, who has served as chief executive of supermarket conglomerate Ahold Delhaize’s U.S. operations for three years, ...Read moreGap Teams With Google for Agentic Clothing Shopping
March 24, 2026
Gap has reportedly launched an agentic commerce partnership with Google’s Gemini. This collaboration will let shoppers check out directly from Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform, CNBC reported Tuesday (March 24). It makes Gap ...Read moreGlobal Mall Visionary David Simon Dies at 64
March 23, 2026
David Simon, a former investment banker who grew a regional family real estate enterprise into the global retail real estate player Simon Property Group, passed away Sunday (March 22) at ...Read more
Walmart Teams With Fiserv on Instant Bank Payments
September 19, 2024
Walmart is reportedly enhancing its pay-by-bank offering via a partnership with Fiserv. The retailer began offering pay-by-bank with Walmart Pay earlier this year, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Sept. 19). But those transactions, ...Read moreNew Data: 95 Pct. Of Consumers Don’t Use Mobile Wallets For In-Store Purchases
April 6, 2020
Among its many profound impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered how consumers shop. Even before large-scale stay-at-home policies went into effect, most consumers sought to limit direct contact with ...Read moreREPORT: What Apple Pay At Five Says About The Future Of Mobile POS Payments
October 21, 2019
Apple Pay went live five years ago yesterday, on Oct. 20, 2014. When Tim Cook took the stage a month beforehand to announce this mobile payments innovation, he shared Apple’s vision ...Read moreCuring Medicine’s Epidemic Of Noncompliance
March 22, 2018
The New York Times wrote in April 2017 that the U.S. was in the throes of an epidemic for which there was not only a cure, but one that would ...Read moreMobile Wallets: Where’s The S-Curve?
February 26, 2018
The classic product lifecycle that all of us had drilled into our heads in business school tells us that at the three-year mark for any new product, it’s top of ...Read moreWhat Payments Innovators Can Learn From Monkeys
January 15, 2018
About 30 days from now, most of you reading this who made a New Year’s resolution will have broken it. Don’t feel too bad – you won’t be alone. By the middle ...Read moreMotivating Mobile In 2018
January 4, 2018
Another year, another chance for mobile wallet players to convince consumers to give up their plastic cards and utilize the phone as a payments form factor. It hasn’t been easy. Despite ...Read moreMobile Payments 2.0: Building Better Retail Experiences
December 28, 2017
Payments has by and large been a growth business for the last half decade or so, and that fact has been mappable in scores of innovations around the world. But, as ...Read moreTarget: Another Day, A New “Pay” Joins The Party
December 7, 2017
For a minute, it seemed as though the proliferation of “Pays” was slowing down. Until recently, there was a tidal wave of Pays out to conquer digital with the power of mobile payments. Apple Pay, ...Read moreWhat Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”
November 20, 2017
Accomplished public intellectual and post-Keynesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith was well-known for four things. He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that ...Read more