AI's Retail Rampage: Walmart's Secret Sauce, Target's Chatbot Charm, & the Trillion-Dollar Future

AI's Retail Rampage: Walmart's Secret Sauce, Target's Chatbot Charm, & the Trillion-Dollar Future

Published: December 29, 2025

Duration: 2:46

This is you Applied AI Daily: Machine Learning & Business Applications podcast.

Welcome to Applied AI Daily, where we explore machine learning and its transformative business applications. The global machine learning market stands at 113.10 billion dollars in 2025, racing toward 503.40 billion dollars by 2030 with a compound annual growth rate of 34.80 percent, according to Statista as reported by Itransition.

Retail giants exemplify real-world impact. Walmart deploys machine learning for demand forecasting, integrating sales data, weather, and social trends to predict spikes—like during hurricanes—rerouting shipments across 150 distribution centers with zero customer disruption. This yields 30 percent logistics savings and 26.18 perc...
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