Walmart and Amazon are locked in a bitter retail war -- but they're becoming clones of each other in the process (WMT, AMZN)

AP/Gunnar Rathbun The retail war betweenWalmart and Amazon seems to intensify every day. Each company's new initiatives increasingly look like the best ideas of the competitor. This is the future of retail. If you want to know what the Walmart of the future looks like, it's best to look at Amazon for a rough sketch. The same goes for the reverse. As Walmart and Amazon become fiercer competitors, they're starting to look more and more like each other. Walmart continues to move its business online...