{"id":12198,"date":"2021-06-29T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=12198"},"modified":"2021-06-29T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:54:09","slug":"walmarts-ai-is-getting-smarter-about-grocery-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/walmarts-ai-is-getting-smarter-about-grocery-delivery\/12198\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart&#8217;s AI is Getting Smarter About Grocery Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in TechCrunch, June 24, 2021. It\u2019s no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we shop, especially when it comes to groceries. Grocery delivery apps experienced\u00a0a record number of downloads\u00a0in March 2020, and by the following month, Walmart Grocery (which is now integrated into the Walmart app) surpassed Amazon as the\u00a0No. 1 shopping app\u00a0on both Google Play and the App Store. But even as pandemic restrictions have eased, consumers are still using ordering groceries for delivery or pickup\u00a0more frequently\u00a0than they were pre-pandemic. As Walmart\u2019s grocery delivery services have continued to boom, posing competition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/walmarts-ai-is-getting-smarter-about-grocery-delivery\/12198\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in TechCrunch, June 24, 2021. It\u2019s no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we shop, especially when it comes to groceries. Grocery delivery apps experienced\u00a0a record number of downloads\u00a0in March 2020, and by the following month, Walmart Grocery (which is now integrated into the Walmart app) surpassed Amazon as the\u00a0No. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12199,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198\/revisions\/12199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}