(FILES) This file photo taken on January 7, 2009 shows the Wal-Mart logo displayed on the exterior of a store in Oakland, California. Wal-Mart's namesake US stores turned in another quarter of increased sales on August 17, 2017, although the retailing giant reported a drop in profits due to higher expenses.Walmart US, the biggest division at Wal-Mart Stores, scored a 1.8 percent rise in comparable sales in the second quarter compared with the year-ago period, its 12th straight quarter with positive sales in the closely-watched benchmark. / AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / JUSTIN SULLIVAN
CHICAGO: Wal-Mart Stores Inc is teaming up with Alphabet Inc's Google to enter the nascent voice-shopping market, currently dominated by Amazon.com Inc, adding another front to Wal-Mart's battle with the online megastore.
Google, which makes the Android software used to run most of the world's smartphones, will offer hundreds of thousands of Walmart items on its voice-controlled Google Assistant platform from late September, Walmart's head of e-commerce, Marc Lore, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.
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