Walmart Is Spending $6 Billion on Robots From a Company It Partly Owns. The Jobs Line Is Blank.
On October 29, Walmart said it will spend about $6 billion over several years to install Symbotic’s warehouse automation in 25 of its U.S. regional distribution centers. Symbotic is not an ordinary vendor: Walmart is its largest shareholder and, by a wide margin, its largest customer. The announcement