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Walmart+ takes aim at Amazon Prime, launches September 15:
Although it's arriving several months later than expected, Walmart's answer to Amazon Prime is finally scheduled to launch in two weeks, on September 15. Like Prime, Walmart+ offers unlimited free delivery, with some products available same-day in many markets.
Walmart+ looks cheaper than Amazon Prime at first blush—the annual prices for the services are $119 and $98, respectively—but the difference may be less relevant to each company's bottom line than it looks. Both services also offer a monthly plan, and there's effectively no cost difference there. When paid monthly, Prime and Plus are only four cents apart, at $12.99 and $12.95 per month, respectively.
Although Amazon is the incumbent in any online shopping competition, Walmart does have some advantages. Where Amazon needed to build massive distribution centers from the ground up, Walmart only needed to leverage small-scale deliveries from the distribution centers and stores it already has. Walmart can also offer some products that Amazon generally can't—you'll be able to shop online for local, fresh groceries with Walmart+, as well as get membership-based discounts on gasoline at many of Walmart's brick-and-mortar locations.
It is unknown whether Walmart will require online shoppers to wear masks.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Revek on Wednesday September 02 2020, @09:14PM (1 child)
Most places don't have amazon fresh. Nearest place is 90 minutes from where I live.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday September 03 2020, @12:45PM
Hmm interesting I looked it up and I supposedly don't have the service either in my city or in the next bigger city nearby, although obviously I do have service.
I was under the impression if there was a warehouse within driving distance then you have service, but apparently its being rolled out chaotically and the best way to tell is just to try and order and see if they let you order.
Reminds me of trying to order DSL a quarter century ago.