Walmart Inc. and Google share plans to launch a new experience that pairs the intelligence of Google?s Gemini with Walmart and Sam?s Club?s unmatched assortment, value and convenience, to make shopping more intuitive, reliable and perfectly aligned with the rhythms of everyday life. The new experience ? built by Walmart and accessible directly within Gemini using the Universal Commerce Protocol ?
addresses several key customer needs: Great items, at great prices: Gemini will automatically include Walmart and Sam?s Club in-store and online products when it?s relevant. For example, when a customer asks for advice on camping equipment for the spring season, it will return items from the retailer?s large inventory of products. And since people talk back-and-forth with Gemini, there are more opportunities to show relevant products and services throughout the conversation; Personalization and familiarity: When customers discover items in Gemini, Walmart helps them move from inspiration to purchase in a seamless, trusted experience ?
all within the familiar Walmart and Sam?s environments they know and love. When customers link their accounts, Walmart will recommend complementary items based on their past online and in-store purchases, combine their order with other items they?ve put in their Walmart or Sam?s Club carts, and provide all the benefits of their Walmart+ and Sam?s Club memberships; Fast delivery: Customers and members can get in-store and club items delivered right where and when they want it, with hundreds of thousands of locally curated products delivered in under three hours and as fast as 30 minutes. The new experience will first launch directly within Gemini in the U.S. and internationally thereafter.
