Called the Intelligent Retail Lab — or IRL — the store is designed to test the use of artificial intelligence in retail stores.
Called the Intelligent Retail Lab — or IRL, it's designed to test the use of artificial intelligence in retail stores.
In the rear, it even has a data center customers can see through plate glass equipped with 100 servers.The retailer has opened a new retail store to test some of the concepts its been working on in Levittown, New York. Walmart has modified a 50,000-square-foot neighborhood market — its in-house term for a grocery-focused store — to become the new playground."Customers can be confident about products being there, about the freshness of produce and meat.
The idea is that will lead to less friction in the shopping experience, and customers will find the item they need on the shelf more often than not, and it will be more efficient to keep that experience consistent.Sam's Club CEO reveals what the company has learned from its cashierless 'beta lab' store
Walmart is also focusing on other"real, practical solutions," according to the company's blog post, like keeping shopping carts stocked and the right amount of registers open, and not getting too ahead of itself. "You can't be overly enamored with the shiny object element of AI," Hanrahan cautioned."There are a lot of shiny objects out there that are doing things we think are unrealistic to scale and probably, long-term, not beneficial for the consumer.""We think it's something our associates will be excited about," Hanrahan said.
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