These days, Amazon vacuums up most of the attention when it comes to retail innovation. Voice commerce? Check. Drone delivery? Check. Automated warehouses? Check. But more than any other rival this year, Walmart seems to be challenging Amazon with aggressive efforts meant to show that it, too, is dreaming up new ways for people to …
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Voice shopping with Walmart and Google is officially here. The world’s largest retailer in August said it would start offering a chunk of its inventories for sale on the Google Express shopping site and app, as well as on the Google Home smart speaker through voice shopping. Timed to Google’s hardware launch event Wednesday, Walmart said customers can now start …
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Walmart may have accidentally let the cat out of the bag on the yet-to-be-announced Google Home Mini. Droid Life reported Tuesday that the retailer listed the rumored smaller, cheaper version of the Google Home assistant speaker for preorder on its site. But it quickly took the page down. According to the preorder information, the Google Home Mini, which weighs less …
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Google and Walmart both just got a valuable partner in their fight against Amazon: each other. The companies said Wednesday that Walmart in late September will start selling hundreds of thousands of items on the Google Express app and website, as well as the Google Home through voice shopping. Additionally, Google Express is killing off its annual $95 membership fee, …
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Now playing: Watch this: With Vudu on Apple TV, iTunes has competition 1:18 The Apple TV streaming box might not be as big a seller as Roku, Chromecast or Amazon Fire TV, but it still has a loyal following, especially among people committed to Apple‘s ecosystem of iPhones, iPads, Mac computers and software. Since its streaming box launched, Apple has …
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If you are Jet.com customer partial to Kirkland Signature brand products, you’ll soon have to look elsewhere for them. Jet.com, which was purchased last year by Walmart, plans to phase out the Costco-owned brands, Bloomberg reported Monday. Some Kirkland products will still be available on the internet retailer but only through third-party sellers, a spokeswoman told Bloomberg. The move is …
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Crowdsourced delivery is so 2016. Walmart just created something called “associate delivery.” For the past few years, a slew of tech titans and startups have been developing crowdsourced shipping services, with Amazon, Uber, Postmates, Deliv and others paying regular folks to deliver packages or food to customers’ doors. Walmart may have one-upped them. The company on Thursday said that it …
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Walmart has opened a new battlefront in its price war with Amazon, and now it’s enlisting its online shoppers. The retailer’s new move promises to lower the prices on 1 million online-only items if consumers pick up their purchases at a local store rather than opting for home delivery. The salvo reflects Walmart’s belief that its network of physical stores …
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Samsung’s got a secret weapon for its Galaxy S8 with Qualcomm’s latest chip, but will it work? The Galaxy S8 will be the first phone to feature the Snapdragon 835. Qualcomm has boasted about new features like longer battery life, faster charging and gigabit LTE speeds. But maybe there’s a reason why Samsung’s competitors are choosing to stick with the …
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