When a high ranking executive at one of the world’s largest companies describes a late-to-market copycat strategy as the “ultimate life hack,” you just know this is a venture destined for mediocrity – spearheaded by a veteran team utterly detached from the very customers they are targeting. That is exactly what Walmart’s EVP and Chief Customer Officer Janey Whiteside coined the forthcoming Walmart+ membership service during an interview with Recode this week, ahead of launch on September 15. Whiteside’s hacking reckoning is that Walmart+ is about saving customers time and money, in a throwaway comment which we see as reflective of Walmart’s misconception that a lumbering brick and mortar retail giant can disrupt a software and services world at the…