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Speaker 1: That's a Bloomberg Business flash. This is taking stock with

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Speaker 1: Kathleen Hayes and Pin Box on Bloomberg Radio. Shares of

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Speaker 1: Walmart stores down about a tenth of a percent today

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Speaker 1: trades lower by eight cents at seventy dollars and eighty

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Speaker 1: seven cents. This comes after Walmart says it's far to

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Speaker 1: test grocery delivery service with Uber Technologies and Lift all

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Speaker 1: part of Walmart's effort to compete head to head with

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Speaker 1: Amazon dot Com. Let's find out more from Shannon Petty,

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Speaker 1: piece US consumer reporter for Bloomberg News. Shannon, always a pleasure,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. Yeah, glad to be here.

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Speaker 1: All right, So you at the meeting, CEO. This was

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Speaker 1: Doug McMillan's effort to kind of say, look, where in

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Speaker 1: the technology business as much as we're in the retail business. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the annual shareholder meeting today, they're going to start this

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Speaker 1: grocery delivery service in Denver and Phoenix later in the month.

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Speaker 1: Is this really what's going to turn Walmart around as

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Speaker 1: it needed. Well. I think what they're doing here with

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Speaker 1: this grocery delivery and also this grocery pickup service is

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Speaker 1: they're really trying to like fortify the walls of the

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Speaker 1: fort around their grocery business. Grocery accounts for more than

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Speaker 1: half of Walmart's US business, Like, they can't lose in grocery.

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Speaker 1: And when you have Amazon, Google, Um Target dipping their

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Speaker 1: toes into grocery delivery, I think Walmart knows. Yes, they

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Speaker 1: obviously they sort of missed the boat on the Internet,

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Speaker 1: and you know with Amazon when it comes to general merchandise,

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Speaker 1: they've been trying really hard to play catch up. But

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Speaker 1: when it comes to grocery, they cannot lose their like

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Speaker 1: they cannot be caught behind, and so doing things like

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Speaker 1: testing this grocery delivery service they announced today where you

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Speaker 1: place your order online, an uber or a lift dry

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Speaker 1: ever in these two cities that are testing it, goes

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Speaker 1: and picks it up, drives it to your house for

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Speaker 1: a seven to ten dollar delivery. See UM. The other

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Speaker 1: thing they've gone as this grocery pickup service, So you

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Speaker 1: order your groceries online and then um you drive into

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Speaker 1: store that you're there, and in less than five minutes,

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Speaker 1: an employee wheels a card out, put them in your trunk,

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Speaker 1: and you never have to get out of the car.

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Speaker 1: Like they're trying to do all of these things to

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Speaker 1: really make sure they aren't going to be losing any

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Speaker 1: grocery business and hopefully picking up some more, hopefully attracting

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Speaker 1: customers who want a shop at Walmart, who will because

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Speaker 1: of the convenience, and then of course just improving their

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Speaker 1: brand in general with customers. Hey, we're a company with

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Speaker 1: a website and we do stuff online. You're in the

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Speaker 1: parking let's get groceries. Don't you want to stop in

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Speaker 1: it will sort of trickle out to the rest of

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Speaker 1: their business. So Shannon share some of the color as

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Speaker 1: you uh report all day at the Bud Walton Arena

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Speaker 1: because it strikes me too, this seems on a very

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Speaker 1: Walmart new Walmart. So they've been bringing some things back

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Speaker 1: over Walmart marketing material. When there was a low price,

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Speaker 1: they had that miley face next to it. Like that

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Speaker 1: went away in two thousand six, and they announced at

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Speaker 1: So there's been a number of big things that used

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Speaker 1: Walmart at the annual meeting today. We're breaking news this

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Speaker 1: afternoon Tony Fidel sitting stepping down as the head of

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Speaker 1: Nest Labs, a blow to Google, which bought the company

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Speaker 1: just two years ago. Joining us now is Jack Clark

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Speaker 1: Jack interesting story. You say it's a blow to Google

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Speaker 1: to have Tony Fidel leaving, but they some say he

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Speaker 1: was a problem. So they've been employee complaints about Nest

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Speaker 1: At the same time, Fidel has said in the blog

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Speaker 1: post that this is a personal decision that's been underway

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Speaker 1: since last year. However, it is a blow to Google

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Speaker 1: to lose a high profile CEO of one of its

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Speaker 1: Google businesses. Jack, is there any indication at the three

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Speaker 1: it an acquisition they regret or is it just just

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Speaker 1: an executive issue they're portraying it as an executive issue.

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Speaker 1: They point out the revenues have grown. Internet of things

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Speaker 1: may notice that Google just announced Google Home, which is

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Speaker 1: a smart AI powered virtual system that will sit in

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Speaker 1: your living room and talk to you, much like Amazon's Echo.

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Speaker 1: That's being done out of the Google business rather than Nest,

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Speaker 1: So they're certainly hedging their bets with another products line

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Speaker 1: not coming from Nest. Now, well, next move for Tony

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Speaker 1: Fidel any ideas quickly? Well, he's got a start up

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Speaker 1: last month. And he's a lifelong hardware tinkerer. I don't

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Speaker 1: think this is the last will hear from him? Jack Clark,

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Speaker 1: thank you so very much, Bloomberg News reporter about Tony

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Speaker 1: Fidel leaving Nest two years after Google bought the company, Pam,

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