Anuj Dhanda, chief information officer of Albertsons, said Amazon’s expansion has hastened his company’s efforts to modernize its infrastructure and in-store experiences.
Other than deploying on Azure and signing up employees with the Microsoft 365 bundle, Albertsons plans to use Microsoft’s artificial-intelligence technology, and the two companies could team up on cashierless systems, which Albertsons has already been testing.
“We wouldn’t want to develop the technology as much as Amazon would do, but we would say, ‘How do we deploy the technology, how do we leverage it?’” Dhanda said.
Albertsons chose Azure to be its primary cloud because of its experience with big companies, history with large retailers and strong technical capabilities, and because it isn’t a competitor, Dhanda said. Microsoft has picked up recent business from retailers like Gap, Walmart and Kroger.
AWS, meanwhile, is still quite competitive in retail, providing its technology to companies including Brooks Brothers and Under Armour.
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