Walmart is partnering with Google for voice-assisted grocery shopping
Amazon customers can shop groceries from Whole Foods by calling out orders in their homes to their Echo devices, but Walmart customers have lacked that option. Walmart thinks shopping via text might be retail's next big thingWalmart doesn't make its own smart device like Amazon, so it's tapping Google Assistant, Google's AI-powered voice assistant, which is available on more than a billion devices.
Although voice shopping makes up a tiny fraction of retail spending today, analysts expect it to become more popular in the coming years. And Walmart does not want to get left behind.Read More"We continue to innovate for the future and look to technology," said Tom Ward, senior vice president of digital operations at Walmart US.Walmart also plans to expand voice shopping to other platforms beyond Google in the future.But Walmart will still trail Amazon in the voice shopping race.
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