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Walmart partners with Google to enable voice-activated shopping at home.

Walmart has been playing catch up online. Last year it bought the e-commerce site Jet.com. Today the company announced it was partnering with Google to add Walmart items to Google Express and allow voice-ordered purchasing of those items using Google’s virtual assistant. Is this another way to challenge Amazon’s dominance of the online market? Click […]

Walmart has been playing catch up online. Last year it bought the e-commerce site Jet.com. Today the company announced it was partnering with Google to add Walmart items to Google Express and allow voice-ordered purchasing of those items using Google’s virtual assistant. Is this another way to challenge Amazon’s dominance of the online market?

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