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I wonder if Whole Foods, Wegmans or Trader Joe's would be more successful at an experiment like this. I can't imagine anybody working at a Walmart store trusting their employer with schemes like this.

P.S. Their new website homepage doesn't show any prices. It feels kind of dishonest.



That's such a good idea that Whole Foods is already doing it. You might know it as Amazon Fresh.


Whole Foods employees pick up stuff and deliver it to homes after their shift is over at the store?


Amazon employees do. And Whole Foods has an Instacart partnership (delivery.wholefoodsmarket.com) from before they were acquired.


But that's not the same as a walmart employee finishing work, and then driving stuff to people's homes. Am I missing something?


I am admittedly abstracting a little bit, from this very particular program structure to the general problem of retail outlets doing home delivery to regular consumers.

I suspect Amazon-owned companies are unlikely experiment with the particular structure Walmart is trying. It feels like Walmart is trying to solve a very particular problem that most other companies might not have.




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