{"id":35559,"date":"2025-05-19T18:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=35559"},"modified":"2025-05-19T18:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:42:32","slug":"%e6%b2%83%e5%b0%94%e7%8e%9b%e6%ad%a3%e6%89%93%e9%80%a0-ai%e8%b4%ad%e7%89%a9%e5%8a%a9%e7%90%86%ef%bc%9a%e8%87%aa%e4%b8%bb%e5%ae%8c%e6%88%90%e8%b4%ad%e4%b9%b0%e5%86%b3%e7%ad%96%ef%bc%8c%e6%97%a0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/35559.html","title":{"rendered":"Walmart is building an AI shopping assistant: make purchase decisions autonomously, without the intervention of a real person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 19 News.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%b2%83%e5%b0%94%e7%8e%9b\" title=\"[Sees articles with [Walmar] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Walmart<\/a>in the making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai%e8%b4%ad%e7%89%a9%e5%8a%a9%e7%90%86\" title=\"[SEES ARTICLES WITH [AI SHOPPING ASSISTANT] LABELS]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI Shopping Assistant<\/a>The goal is to automate the entire process from product search to checkout and payment.<strong>Make virtually all purchasing decisions without user intervention<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35560\" title=\"b7023fa6j00swi8dt006zd000fk008mp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b7023fa6j00swi8dt006zd000fk008mp.jpg\" alt=\"b7023fa6j00swi8dt006zd000fk008mp\" width=\"560\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hari Vasudev, Walmart's U.S. chief technology officer, predicts that e-commerce will be fundamentally transformed when intelligences like the OpenAI Operator are able to fully automate the process of searching for products and checking out without requiring the user to visit the product page.<\/p>\n<p>To stay ahead of the competition, Walmart is developing smart assistants built into its apps and web-based<strong>Assistants can both automate the purchase of daily groceries and purchase combinations of goods based on specific needs<\/strong>, such as preparing for a party. By making deep use of Walmart's first-party data, assistants can maintain a direct connection with consumers even as the transaction process tends to become intangible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Walmart will meanwhile prepare for the popularity of third-party shopping robots<\/strong>Hari Vasudev expects the industry to form protocol standards that will allow external intelligences to interface with Walmart's systems to exchange user preference data and access structured product information; Walmart's product pages will still need to remain machine-readable and competitively priced for shopping bots that autonomously crawl the site.<\/p>\n<p>Algorithmic purchasing will disrupt traditional marketing tactics, with AI shopping assistants paying more attention to specification parameters, inventory status, and total cost of ownership than relying on visual images to motivate shoppers to buy.Gartner analyst Robert Hetu argues that in a future where search engine rankings (whether paid or natural traffic) dominate the prioritization of shopping bots' exposure to offers, retailers may need to update product descriptions and trigger instantaneous discounts at a nearly retailers may need to update product descriptions and trigger instant discounts in near-real time.<\/p>\n<p>1AI found that Walmart's current sales of over 80% still come from brick-and-mortar stores, but its year-over-year e-commerce 22% increase confirms the digital transformation of user spending habits.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 19, Walmart is building an AI shopping assistant with the goal of automating the entire process from product search to checkout and payment, and completing almost all purchasing decisions without user intervention. Hari Vasudev, Walmart's U.S. chief technology officer, predicts that e-commerce will be fundamentally transformed when intelligences like the OpenAI Operator are able to fully automate the search-to-checkout process without requiring the user to visit the product page. To stay ahead of the competition, Walmart is developing intelligent assistants, built into the app and on the web, that can automate the purchase of everyday groceries, as well as purchase combinations of items based on specific needs, such as preparing for a party. By making deep use of Walmart's first-party data, the assistant will be able to automate the purchase of everyday groceries, as well as purchase combinations of items based on specific needs, such as party preparation.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[6649,882],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-35559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-882"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35559"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=35559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}