{"id":92269,"date":"2025-09-29T08:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/92269\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:50:10","slug":"walmart-ceo-foresees-ai-transforming-literally-every-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/92269\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart CEO Foresees AI Transforming ‘Literally Every Job’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walmart<\/a> is reportedly preparing for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform its workforce.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very clear that AI is going to change literally every job,\u201d CEO Doug McMillon<\/a> said last week, per a Friday (Sept. 26) Wall Street Journal report<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The report characterized McMillon\u2019s comments, at a workforce conference at Walmart\u2019s headquarters in Arkansas, as among \u201cthe most pointed assessments\u201d so far from a major company\u2019s chief executive on the effect of AI on employment. At the conference, the CEO said some roles at Walmart will be eliminated, while others will be created.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe there\u2019s a job in the world that AI won\u2019t change, but I haven\u2019t thought of it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Walmart executives have begun to study implications<\/a> for its workers during almost every high-level planning meeting. Company leaders say they are monitoring which job types decrease, increase and remain steady to determine where additional training and preparation can help workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to create the opportunity for everybody to make it to the other side,\u201d McMillon said.<\/p>\n

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In the meantime, company officials say these changes mean the size of its staffing levels will remain more or less flat even as revenues climb.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Walmart intends to maintain its head count of around 2.1 million global workers over the next three years, though the mix of those jobs will change significantly, said Donna Morris<\/a>, Walmart\u2019s chief people officer, who added that it\u2019s not clear how that composition will look.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to do our homework, and so we don\u2019t have those answers,\u201d Morris said.<\/p>\n

As the WSJ noted, Walmart has already developed chatbots<\/a>, which it calls \u201cagents,\u201d for customers, suppliers and employees, and is also tracking an expanding share of its supply chain and product trends with AI.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, PYMNTS wrote recently about the great debate surrounding AI and job losses, pointing to PYMNTS Intelligence research which revealed how large U.S. companies are increasingly dipping their toes into agentic AI<\/a>. This technology can autonomously take actions and make decisions independent of human oversight, like paying a vendor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the companies are keeping a tight leash<\/a> on the software, with human hands on the processes the software handles,\u201d PYMNTS added.<\/p>\n

In other Walmart news, PYMNTS wrote about the company\u2019s upcoming sales event<\/a> for October, happening in tandem with a similar event from rival Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmazon wants to turn rivals into customers by monetizing infrastructure. Walmart wants to bind customers more tightly by expanding the scope of its services,\u201d that report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe strategies differ, but the intent is the same<\/a>: win the household wallet before holiday spending surges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walmart is reportedly preparing for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform its workforce. \u201cIt\u2019s very clear that AI is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[9668,291,289,290,58671,18,19,17,5,1351,3439,82,2350],"class_list":{"0":"post-92269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-agentic-ai","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-doug-mcmillon","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-pymnts-news","18":"tag-retail","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-whats-hot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}