Walmart has been busy building out its own delivery service platform, Spark, which hands off grocery deliveries to its own database of gig workers, similar to the way Lyft and Uber operate. Walmart told Insider that Spark accounts for 75 percent of its deliveries and services 84 percent of...
Walmart's been doubling down on sometimes-quirky experiments like these as it looks for new ways to challenge Amazon's dominance of the online shopping market. The online grocery market has been one of the most cutthroat fronts of that battle, especially since Amazon took over Whole Foods in...
In-home grocery delivery is not an entirely new concept for Walmart. The company partnered on another grocery delivery option in 2017 with smart-security company August, which makes locks that customers can monitor on their phones. That test included drivers from a crowd-sourced startup to ...
If you've ever wished someone else could make your weekly Walmart run for you (who has time to wander through that whole store, anyway?), you're in luck: In an effort to compete with Amazon, the corporation is teaming up with Uber and Lyft to test-drive its own grocery delivery serv...
Walmart has launched a pilot version of an on-demand drone-delivery service for grocery and household essentials in North Carolina. The retail giant announced the partnership with Flytrex, an end-to-end drone-delivery company, on Wednesday. People who live in Fayetteville, North Carolina, will ...
Nuro also delivers food and groceries in conjunction with major partners likeDomino’sand the grocery store chainKroger. Digital Trends reached out to Walmart and Nuro for further comment and to find out when/if the pilot program would expand to other cities. We will update this story once we...
it's hard to imagine a store brand coming close to its iconic, kid-friendly taste. But Walmart has a winner on its hands,Cheapism's taste testershave found. The sauce was buttery and the flavor processed — in the best possible way, of course. Looking for a slightly higher-brow option...
The increasing competition from other tech giants, such as Microsoft in the cloud space and Walmart in e-commerce, may also pose risks to Amazon’s future growth. Additionally, if Amazon’s profitability from its non-core businesses—like its streaming platform Amazon Prime Video—slows down, ...
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Area and the company has plans to expand into several states later this year. As part of this effort, the company hasteamed up with Walmartto begin a trial of autonomous delivery vans in Surprise, Arizona. The trial will kick off next month and see Udelv vans deliver online grocery orders...