09-15-2026SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE

Walmart CEO John Furner is turning the retailer’s 5,200 U.S. stores into an unstoppable AI engine

Inside Furner and Walmart’s high-tech sprint to out-automate and outsmart Amazon and become the fastest retailer on the planet.

As he belts the last note of his pop hit “Mystical Magical,” Benson Boone, in a white muscle tee and skintight jeans, backflips off his piano—and 10,000 people inside the Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas, erupt into raucous applause. And he’s just the warm-up act. Boone is followed by........

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