Walmart fired back at Amazon and hinted that it will soon offer one-day shipping without a membership fee.
"One-day free shipping...without a membership fee. Now THAT would be groundbreaking. Stay tuned," Walmart tweeted.Amazon said Thursday that it would shorten its two-day Prime shipping promise to one day.
Walmart fired back late Friday with a snarky tweet hinting that it is planning to follow Amazon's lead. "One-day free shipping...without a membership fee. Now THAT would be groundbreaking. Stay tuned," the company said in a tweet from its main Twitter account. Amazon's new one-day shipping promise applies to members of its Prime membership program, which costs $119 annually.in 2017 without any membership fees, though orders must total a minimum of $35 to qualify.The company said in 2016 that it was capable of
, but that it hadn't figured out a way to do it profitably, so it wasn't making the service available to customers yet.In conversations between Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and Quo Vadis Capital last October, McMillon characterized same-day shipping as the"final frontier" that"everyone is racing to develop," according to John Zolidis, president of Quo Vadis Capital.
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