Walmart expert John Furner will lead next chapter amid AI bets and economic turmoil
By Siddharth Cavale -In 2020, as COVID-19 raged, John Furner, then head of Walmart’s largest U.S. division, consulted with colleagues in China and relied on his pandemic playbook to quickly adjust inventory forecasts and fulfillment operations to get ahead of panic buying. Furner, a Walmart worker who grew up in Arkansas, where the retailer is…