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860 Why Walmart Isn’t Sleeping on Agents

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Stephanie Palazzolo @ The Information · 03/20/2025 13:00 EDT

Retailers have mixed feelings about web-browsing agents that can control a person’s browser to complete tasks for them.Some firms like DoorDash are concerned that an explosion of agents could overrun their sites with bots, lowering the value of their ads and creating distance between themselves and customers in the process. (That was the subject of our feature story on Wednesday.) Others like Walmart say it’s too early to tell.Hari Vasudev, chief technology officer of the retailer’s U.S. business, believes.

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