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Opinion
Petersen: Ending de minimis benefits Amazon and Walmart against cross-border competitors
“For the de minimis thing in particular, I think Amazon's better off with de minimis not existing. Because de minimis is shipping direct from China to the U.S. Consumer. It skips their fulfillment network. Which is where they put all the capex and huge competit…”
Ryan Petersen Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 41:55 Is The U.S. Losing Trump's Trade War? — Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roy: OpenAI o3 Repeated Walmart 23 Times in Top Retailers Query
“However, this morning I asked, and I asked from the deep, deep research side, what are the top 150 retailers in the U.S. By revenue in 2024? Seemingly straightforward query. It returned Walmart 23 times and Amazon 36 times In this list.”
Ranjan Roy Apr 19, 2025 ▶ 7:35 Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
Insight
Sorkin: Retail investors cannot drive meme surges in mega-cap stocks
“I mean, it would be very hard For a retail base of investors to move the stock of an Apple or a Walmart or an Amazon in this kind of way.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Jun 16, 2021 ▶ 11:34 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Meme Stocks, Bitcoin, SPACs, and Elon Musk
Assertion Partly supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI partners with Walmart, Etsy, and Shopify for commerce revenue share
“They want to take a cut of both the discovery and the transaction when someone searches For a product using ChatGPT. This is already happening with Walmart, Etsy, Shopify, all announced on dev, on their dev day.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 22:22 OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kurian: Every Walmart transaction is processed in Google Cloud
“You know, every transaction that happens at a Walmart gets into our cloud to allow them to do analysis of how much inventory do they need to replace, which customers are buying, what products are selling.”
Thomas Kurian Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 53:14 Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs
Disclosure
Parker: Trivariate tracks Chinese product prices at Target, Walmart, Costco
“The kind of research we're doing is looking at, like, China products you can buy at Target and Walmart and Costco today, and then seeing what the price is gonna be next week, later this week, and see, like, how quickly, if at all, do the prices come up, right?”
Adam Parker Apr 8, 2025 ▶ 12:57 Tariffs Impact on Tech Stocks: A Black Swan Event? — With Adam Parker of Trivariate Research
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: Google assigned thousands of employees to voice assistant development
“And Google actually put a multi-thousand person team to work on this, both in search, but also within my team. The shopping team, for example, had an assistant. We had partnerships with companies like Walmart. We took it seriously”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 3:36 Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
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