Walmart's partnership with Waymo is a backhanded swipe at Amazon

Waymo has a new partnership with Walmart that may just look like a deal to put more self-driving cars on the road. But in the words of Jafar from Aladin, things are not always what they seem.

Waymo, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, has struck an agreement with Walmart and four other national retailers for a test program in the Phoenix, AZ area, according to CNBC. 

Other retailers include the car rental company Avis, car repair company AutoNation, the Element Hotel, and a national shopping center real estate company called DDR Corp. It will offer customers who patronize those businesses rides to and from in its autonomous vehicles. And since all of these chains are national, these partnerships have the potential to expand beyond Phoenix. Read more...