Wal-Mart Will Launch Inventory-Checking Drones By Next Year

Amazon wowed the internet with its drone delivery project, a prototype drone that brought a small package right to a customer's door. This was the future of drones in retail, said Amazon, promising a universe where customers never had to set foot in a store. Now Wal-Mart, Amazon's erstwhile physical competitor, is getting in on the drone game, but they're not bothering with delivery at all. No, when Wal-Mart flies drones, as it plans to do in the next 6 to 9 months, it will fly them inside warehouses. To cut costs on labor, naturally.