The service in free, and prices are the same for the more than 30,000 grocery items and consumables – including fresh meat, dairy, produce and common household items – as they are in the store.
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You then pay with a credit card, just like any online purchase, and then pick up the items at the curb.
Wal-Mart has been testing this in a few other markets over the past year. “Since then we have received thousands of requests from all over the country to bring the service to their town”. It started this week in Houston, San Antonio, Texas; Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Miami, Tampa, Orlando and Cape Coral, Florida.
Browse the Walmart Grocery assortment online.
Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon told analysts this morning that online grocery has the potential to add new customers.
The Wal-Mart Supercenter at 12220 FM 423 in Frisco will be one of several that will offer online grocery shopping with free pickup. The phased-in approach means shoppers can tinker with the order process now, but won’t be able to schedule pickups until the end of the month. The following is a list of the new cities where the service is available, as collected from TechCrunch.
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Hatfield says there is no additional charge for the concierge grocery shopping service.
