Walmart also announced Wednesday it will hire 3,000 employees to support its InHome expansion.
client packages, and they'll do InHome delivery. It's making the best of all these assets that we're putting together in a way that's really sustainable," Ward said. in Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Vero Beach, Fla., and it's since expanded in Northwest Arkansas, Atlanta, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. The company declined to say how many customers the service now has.
"What we've learned in the years we've been testing our InHome proposition is that customers love the convenience of having the items that they've ordered put in their fridge, their freezer, or left on their countertop, or in the garage when they come home. And they can just set and forget and really do the things they want to spend their time doing," Ward added.
Currently the nation's largest grocer by revenue, Walmart has used that frequency-driving category to fuel online sales growth by launching convenient ways for people to shop and encouraging customers to buy other items, such as apparel, electronics and more, when replenishing the fridge with a gallon of milk or getting ingredients for dinner.
The big-box retailer is also the nation's leader in click and collect, a service that allows shoppers to place online orders and pick up purchases in the store or parking lot. One in every four dollars that Americans, according to a recent estimate by Insider Intelligence. "We think there is no one right answer in the last mile equation," Ward said."We want to experiment and then when we see those things that really resonate with our customers we want to scale out to as many people as we possibly can as fast as we can."
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