Walmart’s fiscal 2026 bets: Supply chain optimization, AI, automation
Walmart continues to bet on leveraging AI, optimizing its supply chain and developing a host of related businesses that'll grow operating profits.

Matrix Commerce analyzes the disruptive pressures influencing the commerce paradigm. Commerce faces rapidly changing business models and new payment options that are often misunderstood and poorly integrated.
Matrix commerce (TM) means the fusing of demand signals and supply chains in an increasingly complex world where buyers seek frictionless buying experiences. Friction in this new world originates from new regulatory requirements such as sustainability, taxation, and privacy.
As commerce continues to evolve around buyer preferences, channels, demand signals, supply chains, payment options, enablers, and big data will converge to create Matrix Commerce. Matrix Commerce spans across disciplines as people, process, and technologies continue to transform today's commerce models.
Walmart continues to bet on leveraging AI, optimizing its supply chain and developing a host of related businesses that'll grow operating profits.
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