i talked to satya nadella and stefano pessina, the two ceos about how they got here, take a listen >>l of the partnerships as we are transforming our business to cloud infrastructure, ai capabilities as well as with microsoft 365, we are building a lot more of what i would call industry specific layers, but in order to do that we still have many system integrators, many isbs that are coming together on our platform, so it is not just about microsoft but it is about being able to orchestrate that entire ecosystem of tech providers to help companies like wba transform. >> stefano, you said you don't see amazon coming in and eating your lunch, that you're going to be able to scale up technology faster than they're going to be able to equal your physical locations. how long have you got to make this partnership, this technology you're working on with microsoft work so you maintain what you see as that advantage over the likes of amazon >> we create another ecosystem and we live together we have never believed that someone can monopolize the market we believe if you do the right things, yo

we had satya nadella yesterday talking about this deal with walgreens's boots alliance he's also donels with walmart, with kroger what's the hard part in pulling that off, not just between these two companies, but he's talking about bringing this whole ecosystem together to digitize the foundation for the future. >> the world is going digital, and it's all being integrated. we've talked for a long time about retail stores connecting digital and physical, like target's doing a great job then it goes to specific categories so like, pharmacy. pharmacy should be an online deliver-to-door business, very economic high value-added product we help the premium companies with the last mile we're taking thousand-dollar products through the door to create an experience for free. so we've got to pick your niche. like, electronics is going to go, digital, through the door. that's what we're creating the on-demand mobile store walgreens, boots, pharmacy, going through the door, right? but that doesn't mean all products will. it's going to be niches that get re-invented for this digital world. >> bef

. >> now every time satya nadella says trust, you should be thinking about amazon.ft as being a partner to a lot of these companies that feel threatened by amazon trying to help bring them to the cloud interesting a week ago you might recall kroger announced its deal with microsoft and that's supposed to be about helping customers navigate the stores also helping kroger's own employees navigate the stores more quickly and fulfilling orders for customers walmart had a deal they announced back in the summer a five-year deal this is seven. step one, though, is moving these customers, huge customers, out of legacy systems into the cloud and then they can build on top of that. >> so interesting to see who microsoft is partnering with you mentioned the kroger deal. i spent some time with rodney mcmullan of kroger talking about the microsoft collaboration and the collaboration going on with walgreens where they're doing pilot stores between kroger and walgreens. the common thread is they all hate amazon and are trying to compete. so do these partnerships, when they team up