#SquadGoals: How Automated Assistants are Helping Us Work Smarter
Smart assistants have huge potential to make busy stores run more smoothly. Walmart has been pioneering new technologies to minimize the time an associate spends on the more mundane and repetitive tasks, allowing them more opportunity to serve customers face-to-face on the sales floor.
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Inspiring Stories of Walmart’s $1-a-Day College Program, Live Better U
Real associates enrolled in Live Better U, Walmart’s groundbreaking education benefit, share their experiences.
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Walmart Adds 14 Tech Degrees, Certificates to Live Better U College Offering
We’re providing new in-demand technology degrees for associates and giving high school students an on-ramp to the workforce and path to college.
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In Our HandsTo better serve customers, we’re empowering our teams with the latest tools, training, education and technology.In Our HandsTo better serve customers, we’re empowering our teams with the latest tools, training, education and technology. -
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The Connections That MatterWe’re changing the way people and technology work together, but our business is still a people business.The Connections That MatterWe’re changing the way people and technology work together, but our business is still a people business.
She Started at the Bottom. Now, This Store Manager is at the Top of Her Game.
Amanda Whitehurst was hired in 2009 as a temporary cashier. Now she's the manager of a Walmart Supercenter.
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Walmart's New Intelligent Retail Lab Shows a Glimpse into the Future of Retail, IRL
With artificial intelligence-enabled cameras, interactive displays and a massive data center, this Walmart Neighborhood Market suggests a retail future that seems like science fiction.
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