There was a time, not too long ago, when Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) was the undisputed king of retail. However, e-commerce has changed the landscape, and over the last few years, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been taking an increasingly large slice of the retail pie. Wal-Mart has been playing catch-up in online sales, but now it seems the retail giant is ready to take the fight to Amazon, with a little help from NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) and artificial intelligence (AI). In a note to clients, Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry revealed that Wal-Mart would be building huge data centers to house its cloud computing and make a sizable push into deep learning, a segment of artificial intelligence.

Just ask any retail worker about working during the holiday season: Often, they'll have horror stories about the days after Thanksgiving. It's no wonder that during these stressful times, employees of large retail stores don't often get the attention or help they need when they're so focused on serving customers. For this reason, the worker center Our Walmart released an Android app last Monday with the aim of providing commonly asked questions to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. employees that sent the discount retailer into a tizzy. It was an innovative app that worked too well, said the app's engineer Jason Van Anden, developer and president of Quadrant 2, to Forbes. "Our Walmart had reached out this past April and I was amazing a the sheer number of non-unionized employees," Van Anden told Forbes.

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.