Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Chart Of The Day -- Walmart Partners With OpenAI / ChatGPT -- October 14, 2025

Locator: 49380WMT. 

See this note for more background. 

Chart of the day.

Follows the announcement that Walmart has partnered with OpenAI / ChatGPT.

Walmart is forming a partnership with OpenAI to let shoppers buy its products directly within ChatGPT, the artificial-intelligence chatbot. It is a signal by the biggest U.S. retailer that online shopping is going to become a totally different experience from the retail websites we are all used to.

For years, shoppers have used a search bar and browsed a long list of items, Walmart Chief Executive Doug McMillon said Tuesday. “That is about to change,” he said.

It will be interesting to see how shopping Walmart through "the everything app" will be different than shopping Amazon through the Amazon website.

I've suggested (on the blog) that the "ChatSiri" icon could take the place of the other fifteen apps / icons at the bottom of the screen. Could OpenAI/ChatGPT become its own operating system?