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Walmart says customers will soon be able to use ChatGPT to shop (nbcnews.com)
1 point by nairteashop 27 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Hopefully they also hook up the checkout operators.

While waiting for the operator at Walmart to find the 4 digit code for an uncommon vegetable, I asked ChatGPT if it could lookup the code and it failed (I'm guessing they are not published for commercial sensitivity reasons?).


PLU codes are in a database you can freely query from your phone. The only problem is that there are so many of them. Like 15+ just for a banana. Which one Walmart uses is up to Walmart.


What about small businesses to compete? Where are the open architecture to provide competition?




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