Retail
growing dominance in online shopping.
The deal will make the retailer’s products
available on Google Express, and follows
Amazon’s announcement that it plans
to acquire supermarket chain Whole
Foods.
“Starting in late September, we’ll be
working with Google to offer hundreds
of thousands of items for voice shopping
via Google Assistant — the largest
number of items currently offered by
a retailer through the platform,” Marc
Lore, Walmart’s head of e-commerce,
said in a blog post late Tuesday.
Walmart will integrate Google Express,
which already lets people purchase
products from a large range of brands,
such as Costco and the pharmacy
Walgreen’s, into its own platform.
“If you’re an existing Walmart cu stomer,
you can choose to link your Walmart
account to Google and receive
personalised shopping results based
on your online and in-store Walmart
purchases,” Google said in a statement.
Walmart’s
third-quarter
results,
released this month, once again
August 2017
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