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Walmart click-and-collect reaches 1,000 stores

Google Home giveaway for new Seattle customers

Jon Springer, Executive Editor

September 6, 2017

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Photos: Walmart Stores Inc.

Wal-Mart Stores said Wednesday that it would give away Google Home devices to the first 250 shoppers to sign up for its Grocery Pickup service in Seattle, where the company’s 995th to 1,000th U.S. stores to offer the service are going live this week.

Walmart said it would celebrate its 1,000th Grocery Pickup opening elsewhere by providing customers nationwide with a $5 promotion code.

grocery-pickup-parking-sign_1.jpgThe retailer last month said Google Home devices would allow for voice ordering at Walmart.com and would be expanded to grocery delivery next year.

“Customers from Atlanta to Albuquerque and Nashville to New York have told us what an ally Online Grocery Pickup is in their fight to save something so important – time,” Mike Turner, VP of ecommerce operations for Walmart U.S, said in a statement. “Our daily mission is to help our customers keep a little more money in their pockets and add more time in their schedules. Online Grocery is doing that for the millions of customers who have tried the service, so we won’t stop with store 1,000.”

Walmart launched online ordering in Denver in 2013. It has added 400 pickup points at Walmart stores this year. Walmart is also piloting online grocery delivery in six markets.

Walmart said its personal must successfully complete a three-week training and certification course before picking orders for customers.

an-associate-gets-ready-to-bag-tomatoes_1.jpgA Walmart associate gets ready to bag tomatoes for grocery pickup.

 

 

About the Author

Jon Springer

Executive Editor

Jon Springer is executive editor of Winsight Grocery Business with responsibility for leading its digital news team. Jon has more than 20 years of experience covering consumer business and retail in New York, including more than 14 years at the Retail/Financial desk at Supermarket News. His previous experience includes covering consumer markets for KPMG’s Insiders; the U.S. beverage industry for Beverage Spectrum; and he was a Senior Editor covering commercial real estate and retail for the International Council of Shopping Centers. Jon began his career as a sports reporter and features editor for the Cecil Whig, a daily newspaper in Elkton, Md. Jon is also the author of two books on baseball. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English-Journalism from the University of Delaware. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. with his family.

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