Amazon, Walmart Fight War on 2 Fronts: Grocery and Healthcare

The contrast shows two scale strategies: Amazon optimizes for efficiency and invisibility while Walmart bets on visibility and service layering.Walmart is expanding what stores do, using its footprint to add healthcare and other high-engagement services.Amazon is retreating from experimental stores but not the grocery category, shutting Amazon Go and Fresh to focus on logistics, delivery speed and capital efficiency, while planning 100 new Whole Foods locations.Amazon and Walmart are battling on two of the ...