walmart is now the largest grocer in the country, more foot traffic than the likes of kroger. kroger is probably synonymous with groceries and they employ about half a million people across the country, part-time, full-time. they are going to be cutting hundreds of jobs and that's because they can't reconfirm their three-year projection of $400 million in incremental operating profit because of this intense competition. self-driving cars i should point out is for the future. but we do have pickup and they are trying to get more online as well. stuart: good luck to them. that's the way you meet your competition. check futures, please. pretty much dead flat after an 800 point drop in the last couple of days. this changes at 10:00 this morning. >>> troubling new developments in the vaping business, vaping related illnesses, i should say. the mayo clinic researchers looked at lung tissue samples and they say the damage looks like severe chemical burns. they compared it to lung tissue of people who inhaled mustard gas in world war i. doc siegel coming up on that one. >>> also comin