Leading food delivery apps Uber Eats and DoorDash may have found their biggest rival and competition, and that’s no other than the chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, grocery stores, pharmacies, and gas stations from the 1960s, Walmart.
Yes, Walmart has launched its own food delivery app and website.
Walmart has been the go-to retail store of American consumers. When they need groceries, Walmart has them. When they need medicines, Walmart has them. Walmart also has sections for fashion finds, pet supplies, and household supplies. For several decades, Walmart has become indispensable to the American people.
But, Walmart is taking the track of the unprofessional when it is launching its own food delivery app and website, considering the fame of apps like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub.
Walmart has announced it is adding delivery from in-store restaurants to its suite of services.
“This marks Walmart’s first restaurant integration within Express Delivery and reflects the company’s broader focus on helping customers simplify everyday life by bringing groceries, household essentials, fashion, prescriptions, and restaurant meals together in one convenient experience,” Walmart chatted with Ridesharing Forum.
Starting this month, the retail giant will be offering deliveries from its in-store restaurants, like Subway, via the Walmart app or Walmart.com.
Customers can order the meals, or have them delivered together with, get this, their groceries or other items as part of a bigger Walmart Express Delivery order.
Don’t be surprised if you check the app or the website, then you find only one restaurant, since the first restaurant to become available for delivery is Subway.
This move, that locks horns and trades blows with DoorDash and Uber Eats, Walmart stated that customers in select locations can now order Subway via the designated app or website, and have their meals delivered in as little as half an hour or less.
This marks the very first restaurant integration of Walmart within Express Delivery as it looks to bring groceries, household essentials, fashion, prescriptions, and restaurant meals together in a single experience.
“The future of retail is about bringing more of customers’ everyday needs into a single, seamless experience,” stated Tracy Poulliot, the executive deputy for eCommerce and Marketing, Walmart United States. “Bringing Subway delivery into the Walmart app is another way we’re using our proximity to customers and scale to make everyday decisions simpler and everyday life a little easier.”
Subway is the biggest in-store restaurant tenant of Walmart, starting its partnership together with the retail chain in 2004.
“Subway has always been focused on making freshly made, quality meals accessible to customers wherever they are," stated Damien Harmon, the president of Subway North America. “The integration of Subway delivery into the Walmart app and Walmart.com is a natural evolution of our 20-year relationship built on a shared commitment to value, freshness, and everyday convenience."
This offering is now live in select Walmart branches across Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, and will expand to approximately a whopping 1,400 locations by the end of the summer. For more delivery news, keep it locked right here on Ridesharing Forum!