AUSTIN — Grocery shopping in Austin just got a little bit easier.
Austin has become the latest of 13 metro area cities nationwide to inherit Walmart's new online grocery delivery service. The service will be available at Walmart stores throughout Austin, as well as locations in surrounding areas such as Round Rock, Georgetown, and Cedar Park.
“We will be able to deliver fresh groceries to the doorsteps of millions of Americans,’’ Tom Ward, vice president of digital operations for Walmart U.S., told USA TODAY.
Walmart's online grocery delivery is an extension of the curbside pickup service, which is already available at 14 Austin metro area stores, the company said.
Here is how the service works:
- Order and Choose a Pickup Time: Customers visit walmart.com/grocery or through the Walmart Grocery mobile app, enter their zip codes and begin creating their shopping lists. During checkout, they select a time to for their order to be delivered. At the time of checkout, customers will pay the delivery fee. No money is exchanged at the customer’s door.
- Personal Grocery Shoppers Fill the Basket: Highly trained personal shoppers carefully select the freshest produce, meats and other items each customer requested. All Walmart grocery orders are backed by our freshness guarantee.
- Delivery: Delivery partners will be requested by a Walmart grocery associate when the order is ready to be delivered, who will then drive directly to the customer’s location during the 1-hour delivery window they chose.
- Offer: Customers can get their first order delivered for free with promo code FRESHCAR with a $50 minimum order.
Walmart’s Online Grocery Delivery service offers customers their essentials as soon as the same day with a simple $9.95 fee and no subscription is required.
Walmart says its service is different because unlike other services where a banana costs more online than it costs in the store, the prices are the same no matter how you shop.
