https://www.pcmag.com/news/368339/walmart-offers-one-day-delivery-on-220k-items
Walmart is this week introducing NextDay delivery "on a wide range of general merchandise" offered through Walmart.com. The company is also keen to point out this offer does not require a paid membership as is required for Amazon Prime.
NextDay delivery will be slowly introduced across the US, with Phoenix and Las Vegas getting it first before Southern California customers are added "in the coming days." The aim is to have 75 percent of the US population covered by the end of 2019, which will include 40 of the top 50 US metro areas.
There are a few caveats to keep in mind about this fast delivery offer. The number of products that qualify for NextDay is limited to around 220,000 items, but Walmart states they are the most frequently purchased items. You also need to spend at least $35 in order to qualify for the service, and there will be a cut off time each day as you'd expect.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @07:56AM
Grocery delivery services and online stores like Wal-Mart and Kroger's seem to have higher prices on the items even before shipping is factored in.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 20 2019, @07:59AM (2 children)
Walmart has distribution centers all over the country, already. Stuff is already in shipment from points all around the world, to those distribution centers. Walmart is better positioned than Amazon to deliver stuff overnight, with all those distribution centers, with a constant flow of goods in and out. I'm not certain, but it's possible that Walmart has the largest fleet of trucks in the US. They most certainly rank among the top ten, in that respect - third, behind Pepsi and Sysco - https://fleettrax.net/largest-fleets-america/ [fleettrax.net]
All that was ever required, for the past decade or more, was the will to make it happen. So, they've installed a bunch more computers, with the software to track orders, and the communications that interface between those distribution centers, dispatch offices, and customer orders on the internet.
Despite the fact that I don't like Walmart, and avoid them at every chance, I wonder why this didn't happen at least five years ago. It probably could have happened in 2010, if not even a little earlier.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @08:27AM
This is just TMB and Runaway scalping for scab jobs! Taking actual blow-jobbing jobs out of the mouths of actual workers! Oh, the Huge Tennessee! Like that senate dude.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday May 20 2019, @12:02PM
Delivered by Amazon contractors (essentially a minimum wage avoidance scam which is in itself a long story) locally uses vans and uhaul moving trucks.
I'm a little surprised renting a uhaul for a day results in a profit after paying uhaul. Then again "small businesses" are usually fools getting parted with their money as a business model (see the restaurant racket, small retail, most flippers, etc)
Anyway I'm just saying the same uhaul truck thats delivering amazon prime today could be delivering walmart tomorrow. Giant semi trucks aren't being used for delivery although walmart has plenty.
I would not be surprised to see some kind of partnership where walmart giant trucks sell space available for inter-warehouse transfers at amazon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @08:38AM
Because I'm worth it.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @08:50AM
Muther-fracking holey god of the /shit of of ARkansas! Huckabee Sanders liars? Clintons? Runaway? Have we not have enough effluent out of this fine State, without it being a front page piece of shit? Just asking, you know.
(Score: 2) by sonamchauhan on Monday May 20 2019, @10:54AM
Where does this leave all those B2B office product companies... you know the types: Lyreco, OfficeMax, Staples... the ones that do next day delivery for business consumers on a purchasing contract.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday May 20 2019, @11:57AM (1 child)
The problem with this delivery service is you're stuck with walmart products. Clothes that are one-time wear because buttons fall off / dye washes out / seams unravel at first wash, etc. In the really old days in the 90s they sold products you couldn't use like shirts where the buttons and holes didn't line up.
When I've gone there I've even seen downmarket food in smaller packages than every other store out there. Cans and boxes of highly processed food-like substances that are 10 to 20 percent smaller than grocery store products for maybe 5 percent cheaper.
If you're too poor to buy 36 rolls of toilet paper for $10 at costco, there's always a walmart around to prey upon the poor by selling single rolls of TP for $2, full of dumb people congratulating themselves on how they "saved $8 on TP".
Walmart is a very expensive place to shop.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @02:28PM
I've seen 4 rolls of TP for around $0.70 at Walmart once. It might have been a location thing. Will check and report back later.