Ultimately, both companies are logistics companies with a customer service front end. And logistics are all about computers, networks and software.
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For many years Walmart was the largest private user of technology in the world. Sam Walton was no country bumpkin and in a way, Walmart was the Amazon of its day.
“Walmart was the Amazon of its day”
Agreed, but they have been eclipsed a hundredfold by Amazon.