Published: Jan. 12, 2026 at 8:19\u202fa.m. ET<\/p>\n
Shares of Walmart surged into record territory in early Monday trading as the retail behemoth\u2019s latest moves highlight its focus on technology to drive sales.<\/p>\n
Walmart WMT<\/a> and Alphabet\u2019s GOOGL<\/a> GOOG<\/a> Google announced over the weekend that they were teaming up to launch a new shopping experience<\/a> that will use artificial intelligence through Google\u2019s Gemini to help drive customers to products sold at Walmart\u2019s stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Jan. 12, 2026 at 8:19\u202fa.m. ET Shares of Walmart surged into record territory in early Monday trading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,16544,363,89153,364,102249,89161,89159,44547,101307,47880,137001,27254,8679,89160,77249,19202,28131,47884,136998,136996,137002,137003,101463,30202,111,139,69,136999,3383,101461,644,136995,2712,1321,102251,102247,125915,136997,137004,19201,145,5597,17575,137000],"class_list":["post-230037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ce-exclusion-filter","tag-ce-industry-news-filter","tag-content-types","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-actions","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-crm","tag-disruptions","tag-equity-markets","tag-factiva-filters","tag-financial-performance","tag-gcapi","tag-googl","tag-industrial-news","tag-internet-search-engines","tag-mixed-retailing","tag-nasdaq-100-index-nasdaq-calculation","tag-ndx","tag-new-products","tag-new-products-services","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-online-service-providers","tag-products","tag-products-services","tag-retail","tag-retail-wholesale","tag-salesforce-inc","tag-services","tag-share-price-movement","tag-share-price-movement-disruptions","tag-shopping-malls","tag-shopping-malls-superstores","tag-superstores","tag-synd","tag-technology","tag-walmart-inc","tag-wholesale","tag-wmt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}