Our exit technology is making waves! Progressive Grocer has recognized Sam's Club with the 2024 GroceryTech Innovation Award for a Large Chain Retailer. This accolade acknowledges our innovative efforts to deliver new levels of convenience to our members through experiences including Scan & Go and our seamless exit technology. Advances in GenAI, AI and computer vision are enabling us to improve experiences throughout members' shopping journeys, from entry to exit. Our seamless exit experience, for example, uses a sophisticated layering of smart hardware and software, including cameras, computer vision models and algorithms to interpret visual information collected as members walk toward the exit, compare that data with tens of thousands of products listed in our inventory systems, and then match the cart with a receipt. By automating the exit process and eliminating the need for manual scanning, we’ve been able to streamline the entire checkout process, with members leaving the club 23% faster. Congrats to Lingfeng Zhang, Matt Lindsey, Craig Robinson, Colin Mitchell, Daren Goodroe, Yifan Zhou, Feiyun (Jerry) Zhu, Evgeniia Sorokina, Michele East, Mike Schubert, Mingquan Yuan, Mahesh Devireddy, Paul Lobo, Piyush Goel, wei wang, Rogelio Macedo, MS, Shaelyn Valencia, Vince Cucco, SSM, PMP and Brett McCausland for winning this award. Also, shout-out to the broader #SamsTech team for their dedication in exploring innovative solutions to improve member experiences and provide an unparalleled shopping experience! #TeamWalmart #RetailInnovation
Walmart Global Tech
Software Development
Bentonville, Arkansas 320,180 followers
We're powering the next great retail disruption.
About us
Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.1 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.
- Website
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http://tech.walmart.com
External link for Walmart Global Tech
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 10,001+ employees
- Headquarters
- Bentonville, Arkansas
- Type
- Public Company
- Specialties
- Data Science, Data Analytics, Software Engineering, Technology, UX Design, Cybersecurity, Emerging Tech, Retail Tech, Supply Chain Tech, and Cloud
Locations
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Bentonville, Arkansas, US
Employees at Walmart Global Tech
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Jonathan Sidhu
Transforming business challenges into business value using data science & advanced analytics across multiple industries & domains
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Sanjay Shahri
Software Engineering Leader | eCommerce, Advertising Tech, Front-End, Mobile, Enterprise software
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Samuel Druker
Engineer, scientist, coach.
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Gopal Krishnan
VP of Engineering at Walmart Global Tech
Updates
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Associates Week is all about you – the innovators powering the present and enabling the future of Walmart. We are excited about the experiences we are building for our customers, members and associates, and our passion for continuing to unlock new ways to help people save money and live better is unwavering. Cheers to an incredible Associates Week 2024! #teamwalmart #technology #associatesweek2024
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Introducing The Quarterly Download: a quarterly digest covering the latest innovations from our Walmart Global Tech team. In this edition, we overview a machine learning platform that is simplifying AI/ML adoption at scale, how we’re using AI to reduce waste on our shelves, and more. Read on to stay in the know!
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Innovation meets convenience at Sam's Club with our state-of-the-art exit technology! Over half our members are already enjoying our seamless exit experience at more than 120 locations. By eliminating the need for manual receipt checks, we're reducing wait times and congestion at the exit. The best part? Members are leaving the club 23% faster! Here's how it works: Members simply walk through the exit archways. As they pass underneath the archway, cameras capture images of the cart, and our computer vision models analyze the visual information to detect items within the cart. By cross-referencing this data with our inventory systems, the system can match the cart to the receipt in seconds. To ensure the highest levels of accuracy, we continuously train our computer vision models using millions of images of Sam’s Club items in various positions and lighting. Over time, we expect our system to become even more advanced, enabling it to handle even more complicated scenarios. Check it out next time you visit a club: https://lnkd.in/d_7VjWWC #RetailInnovation #SamsTech #ComputerVision #AI
Big buys, small lines – How Sam’s Club’s AI-powered technology simplifies our members’ exit experience
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Last week we announced a significant milestone: Walmart Luminate is expanding internationally beginning with Walmex in Mexico followed by Walmart Canada later this year. Our approach to building solutions starts with a platform-first mindset, meaning we build a great product once, and then re-use its core components across the enterprise. The global expansion of Walmart Luminate is the latest example of this methodology. International markets can now effortlessly “plug in” to the platform and begin operating immediately, enabling the company to extend our innovative retail solutions to new markets and empower our merchants and suppliers with a shared view of the customer and our products—from the physical to the digital shelf. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dTsXyJBm Walmart Data Ventures #WalmartLuminate #DataScience #WalmartInternational
Walmart Announces Global Launch of Walmart Luminate
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We’re off to a great start to the year with strong FY25 Q1 results! 🎉 Our teams are building on our strengths, delivering the innovation that helps drive Walmart and defines the future of retail. Robust platforms, new customer and member experiences, and the foundational tech for a more intelligent, flexible and automated supply chain, are enabling flexibility and convenience across shopping journeys from discover to purchase to receive. We’re proud of our work and are excited about our momentum. View the full results: https://lnkd.in/gJs5UyK8 #TeamWalmart #SamsTech #WalmartInternational #WalmartGlobalTech #RetailInnovation
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Walmart's AI-powered waste management solution is all about the 3Ps—predictive, proactive, and preventative! It helps our associates identify key waste reduction opportunities and provides actionable recommendations, making it easier to reduce waste in stores. ♻️ Learn more about the innovative tool and how it is helping us create a more sustainable future: https://lnkd.in/gJNH_i-4 #RetailInnovation #AI #GenAI #WasteReduction
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Congrats to Suresh Kumar for being honored among Gold House's A100 list, a recognition of the 100 most impactful Asian Pacific leaders in culture and society over the past year! 🎉 As the architect behind Walmart's tech strategy, Suresh leads our team in building the right systems and foundations that are transforming the business in a way that’s true to Walmart’s roots: innovation with purpose and intent. Suresh's unrelenting commitment to enhancing experiences for customers, members, and associates and making retail experience seamless and delightful is truly inspiring. Congratulations, Suresh! https://lnkd.in/gqwm_7BP #A100 #TeamWalmart #RetailInnovation
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Happy World IP Day! Today, we're celebrating the brilliant innovators at Walmart and Sam's Club. Their achievements have made us more sustainable, improved customer, member and associate experiences, and so much more. From developing patents for Smart Substitutions, managing ESG certifications with blockchain, and right-sized packaging, to introducing cutting-edge solutions like Load Planner, Exit Technology, and the Triplet Cloud Network, our technologists are revolutionizing every aspect of retail. Here's to our trailblazers who continue to push boundaries! #WorldIPDay #TeamWalmart #SamsTech #OurPeopleMaketheDifference #RetailInnovation
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AI Alert!🚀 We’ve all been there. You’re considering a subscription for your favorite paper towel brand, but the frequency question is holding you back. How many rolls will you need per month? What if you miscalculate and run out, leaving you in a mess with nothing to clean it up? Here’s the good news: Starting this week, Walmart is using AI to take the guesswork out of subscriptions. Instead of customers tracking their usage over time to figure out what’s best - or simply subscribing based on what’s most common, we’ll use advanced AI technology to estimate the ideal subscription frequency. This AI starts by considering past purchases and usage patterns, and over the coming weeks and months, it will become even more personalized and accurate. We’ll fine-tune it with comprehensive data, factoring in elements like skipped subscriptions or item serving sizes. #AI #TeamWalmart