[dunpeal]

Serious question: what do you consider "any other enterprise" in this context?

Because the obvious comparison would be Amazon, Walmart's chief competitor, and I don't know how they could match that seeing how they don't have anywhere near the kind of expertise, experience, and investment that Amazon had for over two decades.

To me, it actually makes perfect sense for them to buy an Indian firm to become their tech lab. They don't have the knowledge or resources to even enter the field to compete for talent to build up their tech in the US - let alone win it.