Google and Walmart Partner With Eye on Amazon
Walmart said last week that its online sales — including online grocery — increased 60 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier.
The two companies said Google would start offering Walmart products to people who shop on Google Express, the company’s online shopping mall.
Amazon’s dominance in online shopping is challenging brick-and-mortar retailers like Walmart, while
more people are starting web searches for products they might buy on Amazon instead of Google.
In January, Walmart began offering free, two-day shipping on more than two million items — a move
that takes direct aim at Amazon Prime, whose members who pay an annual fee for fast shipping and other services like movie streaming.