Walmart debuts one-day shipping

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Just weeks after Amazon announced Prime One-Day shipping, Walmart has answered with an offering of its own:

a one-day shipping offering, dubbed"NextDay delivery," that will be available for up to 220,000 products through Walmart's website.The specific items that will be eligible for free NextDay delivery will vary based on customer location, and to qualify for the service, orders must be $35 or more and be comprised entirely of items eligible for NextDay delivery.

The offering will be available in Phoenix and Las Vegas first before expanding to Southern California, and the company plans to reach 75% of the US this year. The products that qualify for NextDay all come from the fulfillment center closest to the customer and ship in one box or as few as possible.Quickly rolling out one-day shipping with no membership fee is a wise move, as Amazon's competitors can't afford to fall behind the e-tailer on delivery speed.

The only reasonable response for Amazon's rivals is to start working on their own offerings, and Walmart is showing that it's on the ball. Furthermore, it will be offering NextDay delivery without the overhead of a membership fee, while Amazon shoppers will have to be Prime members to enjoy one-day shipping with the e-tailer, giving Walmart a slight edge when it comes to accessibility, although it does come with a $35 order minimum.

Amazon will likely make millions of items available for one-day Prime delivery, making NextDay pale in comparison. The e-commerce giant currently offers two-day Prime shipping on over 100 million items,Consumer Reports. If it makes all of these products eligible for its one-day offering, it will be capable of delivering significantly more items in one day than Walmart's 220,000.

Walmart could feasibly grow the number of items eligible for NextDay as it rolls out the offering. The retailer currently offers two-day delivery on millions of items, having boosted the number of products eligible during the 2018 holiday season. As Walmart gains more experience with fulfilling orders in just one day and starts using more fulfillment centers — and potentially stores — to support NextDay, it may be able make some of these two-day-eligible products available for NextDay delivery.

 

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