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Walmart Expands Online Grocery Shopping to 10 More Markets

The company said free pickup has been most popular, and that option is now becoming available at Wal-Mart Supercenters at 11110 Causeway Blvd.in Brandon, 9205 Gibsonton Drive in Gibsonton and 6192 Gunn Highway in Tampa.

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The new areas that allow customers to use Walmart’s online grocery shopping service are located in three states: Texas, Florida and Oklahoma.

Walmart customers across the Metroplex can order from more than 30,000 grocery items and schedule a time for curbside pickup at eight locations in North Richland Hills, Frisco, Plano, Fort Worth, Bedford, and Hurst.

Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon told analysts this morning that online grocery has the potential to add new customers.

Walmart is bringing online grocery with free store pickup to new markets, including Tampa.

If you don’t live in Tampa, enter your zip code for additional locations. The customer can wait in the auto while the groceries are placed in the trunk.

Orders placed by 2 a.m. will be available for pickup from 8 a.m.to 8 p.m. and orders placed by 10 a.m. will be available from 1 p.m.to 8 p.m., based on availability. Shoppers can’t order electronics or sporting goods for pickup, for example.

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Walmart employees will fill grocery orders and load them into customers’ cars.

Customer Jen Dickinson unloads groceries as her son Jack 15-months looks on outside a Wal Mart store in East Peoria Illinois U.S. on Wednesday Feb. 20 2013. Wal Mart Stores Inc. the world’s largest retailer projected first-quarter profit tha