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Podcast: Future Commerce
Episode: Rewind: AI, Classism, and the Digital Divide - Revisiting Episode 51
Description: These show notes were written at a time before LLMs were available to the public, if that's any indication of In this episode from 2017, we covered:WILL WALMART BE COOL AGAIN?Lord and Taylor started selling on walmart.com with their own special homepage.Also, remember how Walmart acquired Bonobos and Modcloth? The world has changed, people.THE DIGITAL DIVIDE:Walmart's upmarket aspirations clashed with the working-class market. Perhaps this is still true?Brian's unfailing optimism about the future of technology and the working class, with technology enabling efficiency and providing better p...