Walmart is searching for ways to fight Amazon. Its latest is a personal-shopping service that hand delivers a single box of cereal or helps plan a kid's birthday party.
The world’s largest retailer is using Jetblack, a money-losing personal-shopping service, to develop artificial intelligence to compete with e-commerce giant Amazon Epiphany Davis buys items in New York City for a Jetblack customer.
Walmart started the personal-shopping company last year.United States Latest News, United States Headlines
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