Walmart launching new delivery service to get orders to your home in less than 2 hours
Walmart is launching a new delivery service during the coronavirus pandemic that will deliver items to customers in under two hours, the company said Thursday.
Express Delivery has been piloted in 100 Walmart stores since mid-April and will expand to nearly 2,000 stores in May, Walmart said in a news release.
“We know our customers’ lives have changed during this pandemic and so has the way they shop,” Janey Whiteside, chief customer officer for Walmart, said in the news release. “We also know when we come out of this, customers will be busier than ever, and sometimes that will call for needing supplies in a hurry. COVID-19 has prompted us to launch Express Delivery even faster so that we’re here for our customers today and in the future.”
People can order more than 160,000 items from Walmart, including groceries, electronics, toys and other essential items, the company said.
The service can be no-contact for people worried about the spread of coronavirus, Walmart said. Express Delivery will cost $10 on top of a delivery charge, according to the news release.
“We have an opportunity to serve our customers no matter what life calls for,” Tom Ward, senior vice president of customer product, said in the news release. “Whether it be a last-minute ingredient, medicine when a fever hits, or the item you didn’t know you needed when checking off your chore list, time matters. Express is a solve for that.”
