Walmart expanding free grocery pickup service

Walmart is expanding its free grocery pickup service to an additional eight US markets in April. The free click and collect service was already available in more than 20 markets at the start of this month. The eight markets being added this month are Kansas City; Boise, Idaho; Richmond and Virginia Beach, Virginia; Austin, Texas; Provo, Utah; Daphne, Alabama; and Charleston, South Carolina.

In a blog posted on the company website yesterday (13 April),  Michael Bender, EVP and Chief Operating Officer, Walmart Global ecommerce,said that Walmart was also doubling the number of store pickup locations in markets like Dallas, Houston and Atlanta, where the service is already offered.