Wal-Mart to offer free grocery pickup in some U.S. cities
Reuters
Published Sep 29, 2015 07:23AM ET
Wal-Mart to offer free grocery pickup in some U.S. cities
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT) said it would offer customers who buy groceries online the option to pick up their orders from the parking lots of nearby stores.
The retailer will roll out the free service from this month in certain U.S. cities after trial runs proved popular, Michael Bender, chief operating officer of Wal-Mart's global ecommerce, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.
Shoppers have to choose a pick up time and drive into a nearby store's parking lot, where associates would load the items into their cars, Wal-Mart said.
The service will be available in Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte and Fayetteville, North Carolina; Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah; Nashville, Tennessee; Tucson, Arizona and Colorado Springs, Colorado, the company said.
Wal-Mart said it will extend the service to more markets in the coming weeks.
The $10.9-billion U.S. online grocery shopping industry is expected to grow 9.6 percent annually through 2019, according to a December report by market research firm IbisWorld.
One of the largest players in the market is Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Inc's Amazon Fresh, which delivers in Seattle, New York, Philadelphia, and northern and southern California.
Target Corp (NYSE:TGT) said this month it will partner with Instacart Inc to deliver groceries for as little as $3.99 per order.
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