On: Walmart drops inventory robots from its stores

[yters]

What if they made Walmart be a giant vending machine, automatically fed with conveyor belts from a warehouse in the back?

[tenebrisalietum → yters]

This might not be true, but I think Walmart makes money by selling shelf space visibility to brands--e.g. General Mills pays Walmart money to have products on an eye-level place on the shelf.

[yters → tenebrisalietum]

Or, Walmart can pivot to entirely online delivery shopping and save loads of money by not having stores.

Or, Amazon can slide into the groceries space.