Do you think of IT when you hear Wal-Mart? Most people don’t, but Wal-Mart has an emerging technologies office which makes sense when you consider that Amazon and other online retailers are likely taking a chunk out of its sales. Wal-Mart already has 2,000 technologists on staff in Silicon Valley, but it’s opening a new office in Plano, Texas, April 5 in a Common Desk coworking space in Granite Park.

Wal-Mart has already opened an office on the campus of the University of Texas at Dallas to provide an atmosphere for engineering students and companies to work together. Wal-Mart feels this to be a treasure trove of scoping new talent.

The purpose of these techno offices is to use technology to improve store experience. Problems can be detected earlier with these new systems Wal-Mart wishes to put in place.

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Bob Gibbons is a Real Estate Advisor & Tenant Advocate (also known as a tenant rep) with REATA Commercial Realty, Inc. which is a tenant advisory firm based in Plano, Texas. Bob serves companies in Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Allen, Richardson, Addison, Dallas and the surrounding areas and specializes in companies which lease or buy office and warehouse properties.