Today Walmart Inc. shares and Google plan to launch a new experience that combines the intelligence of Google’s Gemini with the unparalleled selection, value and convenience of Walmart and Sam’s Club, to make shopping more intuitive, reliable and perfectly tailored to the rhythm of everyday life. The new experience – built by Walmart and accessible directly within Gemini using the Universal Trade Protocol — meets several key customer needs:
- Great items, for great prices: Gemini will automatically include Walmart and Sam’s Club products in stores and online when relevant. For example, when a customer asks for advice on camping equipment for spring, he returns items from the retailer’s large product inventory. And as people talk back and forth with Gemini, there are more opportunities to showcase relevant products and services during the conversation.
- Personalization: Familiarity: When customers discover items in Gemini, Walmart helps them go from inspiration to purchase in a seamless, familiar experience – all within the familiar Walmart and Sam environments they know and love. When customers link their accounts, Walmart will recommend additional items based on their previous online and in-store purchases, combine their order with other items they have placed in their Walmart or Sam’s Club cart, and provide all the benefits of their Walmart+ and Sam’s Club memberships.
- Fast delivery: Customers and members can have items delivered to the store and club where and when they want, with hundreds of thousands of locally curated products delivered in under three hours and within 30 minutes.
“The transition from traditional web or app search to agent-driven commerce represents the next big evolution in retail. We’re not just watching the shift, we’re driving it,” said John Furner, president and CEO of Walmart US and incoming president and CEO of Walmart Inc. “We want to help customers get what they need and want, when and where they want it. Partnering with Google to bring the Walmart experience directly into Gemini is another step toward creating seamless shopping experiences for customers and members that are more intuitive and personalized than ever before.”
“AI can improve every step of the consumer journey, from discovery to delivery. Walmart is an innovator in retail and we are excited to work with them on a new open standard to make agentic commerce a reality. Customers will soon be able to experience everything they love about Walmart right in the Gemini app,” said Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet.
The new experience will first launch directly within Gemini in the US and then internationally.
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Walmart Inc. (Nasdaq: WMT) is a people-led, technology-powered omnichannel retailer that helps people save money and live better – anytime, anywhere – in stores, online and through their mobile devices. Every week, approximately 270 million customers and members visit more than 10,750 stores and numerous e-commerce websites in 19 countries. With fiscal 2025 sales of $681 billion, Walmart employs approximately 2.1 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment. Additional information about Walmart can be found by visiting corporate.walmart.com on Facebook at facebook.com/walmart on X (formerly known as Twitter) on twitter.com/walmart and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/walmart .
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