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AI & Jobs Walmart raised full-year guidance on August 20 on comps led by transactions, not ticket. The numbers to file away came later in the call: 3,100-plus stores on automated freight, and a headcount policy that says 2.1 million stays 2.1 million.
AI & Jobs Lowe's says Mylow has fielded roughly 25 million customer questions and that shoppers who use it convert at three times the rate of those who don't. Those 25 million questions used to be asked of the person standing in the aisle.
AI & Jobs Andon Labs' AI store manager recommended terminating an employee, the first known firing decision by an LLM. The logs show engineers had to prompt it to go read its own attendance policy.
AI & Jobs Walmart is eliminating or relocating ~1,000 corporate workers, merging its global-technology and AI product teams under Daniel Danker and Suresh Kumar. CEO John Furner's framing is 「growth at a much lower marginal cost.」 The largest private employer in the U.S. now reads from the same May script as Cloudflare, PayPal and GitLab.