Walmart has announced that its “click-and-collect” e-commerce grocery model will now be expanding to eight new cities, with additional markets to be revealed in the coming weeks.
“We’ve tested online grocery options—both pickup and delivery—in a handful of markets across the U.S.,” the company said in a post on its blog. “Each time we’ve added a new city, our customers begin using the service faster than they did in the previous one.”
The company says that service will launch this month in Atlanta; Charlotte and Fayetteville, North Carolina; Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah; Nashville; Tucson, Arizona and Colorado Springs.
“With 70 per cent of the U.S. population living within 5 miles of an existing Walmart store, this is an idea that simply makes sense for us,” says the company. “We have the locations already in place, and with our website and mobile app expertise, we’re able to combine those things in a way that helps our customers save time and still take advantage of our everyday low prices.”
Walmart notes that shoppers using the service in these cities can purchase their goods online, select a pickup time and then pull into designated parking areas where associates will load orders directly into their cars. Additionally, items purchased online are priced the same as those in stores and there are no extra fees attached to the service.
