Walmart is making it easy to pick up online grocery orders at your convenience!
Walmart is testing out a giant self-service kiosk which is located in the parking lot of their Supercenter in Warr Acres, Oklahoma. The kiosk is open 24/7 and can fulfill hundreds of customer orders in a single day.
How Does it Work?
Customers first pick out and and pay for their groceries online. Then Walmart employees pick and pack their orders, and store them in bins in the kiosk. The kiosk has refrigerators and freezers inside that keep all the groceries fresh. Customers can pick up online grocery orders anytime, 24/7, after they are notified that they are ready – without interacting with any employees. When customers arrive to pick up their orders, they simply walk up to the kiosk and type in a pickup code and their groceries appear within a minute.
There is no fee for using this service, but customers must spend at least $30 per order to use it. More than 30,000 grocery items, including fresh produce, meats, frozen, and dairy products, are available for online ordering and pickup.
Walmart is testing a similar, though smaller, structure in some of its stores for picking up non-grocery online orders.
Why is Walmart doing this?
The pickup kiosks are being tested as part of a much broader effort by Walmart to more seamlessly integrate their online and offline services, and leverage the power of its vast network of stores to better compete with Amazon.
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