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Walmart's Shopping Agent Is Now the Shelf. Are You On It?
Walmart just took Sparky off the app and put it on the open web. Its shopping agent now greets every visitor, picks what to surface first, and carries a 35% higher average order value than shoppers who skip it. For a brand stocked at Walmart, the category grid is no longer where the sale starts. The agent's first answer is. TL;DR: Walmart's Sparky shopping agent is now live across its website, app, and stores, with weekly active users up more than 100% in a single quarter and units purc
Walmart Just Trained 2.1M Employees on Agentic AI. What That Means For Your Catalog.
TL;DR: Walmart is rolling out agentic AI training to all 2.1 million employees and is operating multiple internal AI agent platforms, including Sparky for shoppers and proprietary tools for associates. CEO Doug McMillon's annual letter calls AI central to making Walmart shoppers' "primary destination." For brands stocked at Walmart, the discovery surface is no longer just Google, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot. Walmart's own agents are a parallel surface with their own ranking signals, and