AI Gold Rush: How Walmart Saved 30 Million Miles While Target's Bots Took Over 2000 Stores

AI Gold Rush: How Walmart Saved 30 Million Miles While Target's Bots Took Over 2000 Stores

Published: January 19, 2026

Duration: 2:22

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 over $113 billion this year, projected by Itransition to surge to $503 billion by 2030 with a strong compound annual growth rate.

Retail giants exemplify real-world impact. Walmart deploys machine learning for demand forecasting, integrating weather, events, and sales data to reroute shipments during hurricanes, slashing stockouts and saving 30 million driving miles annually, per Walmart Global Tech reports. This yields 26 percent year-over-year earnings growth and 30 percent...
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