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One few of my colleagues did some agency work for Walmart. A large web application for working in parts of their supply chain. These guys are some of the best
by alexc05 11y ago
One few of my colleagues did some agency work for Walmart. A large web application for working in parts of their supply chain.
These guys are some of the best programmers I know and they had nothing but respect for Walmart tech teams.
The first time it came up that I made a casual assumption like "oh, they must be very 'enterprize-y' in their software development." and one of them corrected me by saying something to the effect of "You'd be surprised actually, they're not just surprisingly sophisticated technologically 'for an enterprise' but they're actually surprisingly sophisticated for anyone"
Anyways, small anecdote that stuck with me.
Walmart is apparently VERY strong in the IT side of things.
- Nelson69 11y agoThey have very sophisticated IT and logistics software, it's one of the ways they beat everyone else on price.
- mreiland 11y agoThey always have been, I took a tour of their facilities in college. I recall being told at the time that every transaction that goes through any of their stores anywhere in the world is saved to a HD and stored in a vault somewhere. Kind of insane when you think about it.
- hga 11y agoIt can be very handy. Five or more years ago, when you returned an item, they'd manually mark the line in your receipt, which works well enough. Yesterday I had to return an item for the first time since then, and after they read the barcode on my receipt from 2 months ago, I saw the whole receipt, or at least the end of it, flash on a small user facing LCD, and they didn't have to do anything else with my paper receipt. For a product quality return like this I can see many ways in which this would be useful.
- jt2190 11y agoYes, see Walmart Labs to get an idea of what they're in to: http://www.walmartlabs.com/ http://www.walmartlabs.com/