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The cost of AI to do all this will be higher than any profits they could possibly make, but the managers who came up with this shot already committed and in the end they can just put that cost on the consumers anyway
You vastly underestimate how cheap and prevalent that sort of AI stuff already is. The upfront costs are high, and there's usually some sort of ongoing support cost, but it's been much cheaper than people since ~2020 and it's only been getting more prevalent and miniaturized.
I'd encourage you to peruse https://everseen.com/solutions for some dystopian horrorshow. That is one of the companies that Kroger and Walmart 'leverage their capabilities from'.
There's also the b2b quid pro quo investment schemes already mentioned.
And also that retail insurers are one of the major ones helping to 'drive adoption of these innovative ermergent technologies' as both the retailers and insurance are constantly trying to ~~scam each other for profit~~ 'maximize the potential earnings from their synergistic, mutually beneficial, relationship'. For further reading
One man's cost is another man's profit.
At some point, Walmart execs sitting on a pile of NVIDIA stock won't see this as a loss for them. It will just become an excuse to trim spending - on healthcare, on wages, on wholesale costs, on maintenance of their fleets and facilities - everywhere that isn't AI.