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Chewy is expanding its reach beyond online retail by integrating physical veterinary clinics and professional health services. Walmart continues to dominate the global retail landscape by leveraging its massive scale and growing advertising business.

Legacy infrastructure, not the models themselves, is what's actually slowing AI agents down. That was the shared conclusion of three infrastructure leaders — from LinkedIn, Walmart, and Zendesk — at VB Transform 2026.

Kieran Shanahan, chief operating officer of Walmart's U.S. operations, is leaving the retailer and will ​be replaced by the company's international division ‌COO, Kyle Kinnard, an internal memo showed on Friday, amid a major management rejig under CEO John Furner.

Kieran Shanahan, chief operating officer for Walmart U.S., will leave this week.

U.S. consumers kept spending in June, but the mix shows why Walmart and Amazon are leaning harder into price as the back-to-school season begins. The Commerce Department's June retail sales report showed sales rising 0.2% from May to $768.6 billion and 6.7% from a year earlier.