Wal-Mart's Drone Patrol - Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)

Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) playbook, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is developing drones for their supply chain management. The company's VP of Emerging Sciences, Shekar Natarajan, showed off the big box retailer's new distribution center tech in Bentonville, Arkansas on Thursday. The main reasons to implement drones in distribution centers is to replace inventory quality assurance employees, while also cutting inventory checks from a month to one day. Also, with the use of drone technology, Wal-Mart can improve the safety of all of the U.S. distribution centers. As for how it works, the drones would be able to take 30 images per second from a mounted camera that is linked to a command center.