Can Walmart Catch Amazon In E-commerce?

From partnering with Instacart to launching Walmart+ as a competitor to Prime, here are all the ways Walmart is looking to catch up with Amazon's dominance in e-commerce as the pandemic pushes more shoppers online.

Walmart is partnering with Instacart to offer same-day delivery starting in a few U.S. markets, making it the latest major grocery chain to team up with Instacart in its fight against Amazon and Whole Foods.

The partnership is currently in a pilot phase in four markets across California and in Oklahoma.

Walmart’s partnership comes at a key time. Consumers are relying on grocery delivery at an unprecedented rate due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and some analysts believe customers will continue to shop online even as things go back to normal.

“Today, we welcomed Walmart to the Instacart marketplace for the first time in the U.S. Instacart now delivers from Walmart locations in three California markets — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — as well as Tulsa, Oklahoma,” an Instacart spokesperson said in a statement. “The new partnership brings thousands of items — from groceries, alcohol and pantry staples to home decor and improvement, personal care, electronics and more — at everyday low prices from Walmart stores to customers’ doors in as fast as an hour.”

Instacart already partners with or delivers goods from Aldi, Target, Costco, Albertsons, Kroger and Walmart’s Sam’s Club, along with smaller grocers and drug stores.

By offering quick delivery, big chain grocers have a stronger position against Amazon, which offers grocery delivery services Amazon Fresh and Amazon Prime Now from its own warehouses and Whole Foods stores.

In his testimony before the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust on July 29, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said companies such as Shopify and Instacart are emerging as competitors to Amazon’s business.

“In recent months, curbside pickup of online orders has increased over 200%, in part due to COVID-19 concerns,” Bezos said. “We also face new competition from the likes of Shopify and Instacart — companies that enable traditionally physical stores to put up a full online store almost instantaneously and to deliver products directly to customers in new and innovative ways — and a growing list of omnichannel business models.”

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What It Would Take For Walmart To Catch Amazon In E-commerce

[olddad]

"You don't have to be as good as Amazon, because no one will get there." Same would have been said of Sears for about 50 years of their history. They were sending stuff to your home a hundred years ago, and just missed the boat. Sears would have BEEN Amazon, if they had understood the Internet. They had the physical infrastructure, the purchasing arrangements, the shipping smarts. All they had to say was, "Can we put these catalogs online?"

[hughjazz]

Walmart a multi billion dollar company with a website they built off weebly, free version.

[SAFFY]

Videos in this format are by far my favourite on the channel.

[KabbaModern]

They can if they capitalize on their delivery/shipping sector and fix the UX (user experience) with their website. Ordering on there is kind of a drag.

[The_Tronic_Drummer]

Walmart website sucks. If they fix that they will have a chance.

[eitkoml]

I just learned that Walmart's ecommerce revenue exceeds ebay's.

[rebeccacasey]

The selling price hiked but walmart have been in our heart for years.

[whhhaaattttttt]

Walmarts website needs some serious enhancing in order for it to function in this day and age.

[trellend]

Heck yeah they can. I ordered a 100 gallon ice chest from Walmart. It was $50. Free shipping. That huge thing made it here in 3 days.

[-present]

Takeaway for this video.
Amazon: Rich.
Walmart: Rich.
Me: Not rich.

[vinyllpreviews]

Wal Mart doesn't have a clue. This is a true story.

Girl Friends tv breaks, she calls me saying she really needs a TV, I'm on the road decide to order it online through wal mart and she can go pick it up.

I order her a tv, choose pick up at store, hit send. Says tv is out of stock it will arrive in 2 weeks. What the hell, I don't want to wait 2 weeks, I didn't want to wait the 2 days it would of took Amazon to deliver the tv.

I go to cancel the order, says I can't cancel because it has been shipped, item is in Transit and you can't cancel while item is intransit.

Once again, I'm wtf, I ordered it 2 seconds ago no way theyve already shipped. I call into wal mart, get the yea nothing we can do, they said just wait until you get the notification it's arrived then you can cancel.

So, no tv is ordered, I come home and she's like let's go get a tv. So we go to the same wal mart I ordered the tv, no lie walk into the doors and they have the tv I ordered stacked 10 feet high displayed as you walk into the store, grabbed one waited 2 weeks and cancelled the tv I bought online. I'm never ordering anything online again from wal mart.

[ninjanerdstudent]

So Walmart is transforming into a Sam’s Club and Amazon hybrid?

[grownupgaming]

We need two players to keep the market fair.

[luisfernandocuestasanchez]

"Delivers the food straight into your fridge" ?
What's next, they will deliver the food straight into your mouth ???? haha

[christianlaville]

Some physical shops are now cheaper than Amazon because everyone rushed to Amazon thus increasing demand and price.
For the first time in several years, I can now find better deals in real life than online.
Funny, when you see Amazon sock price being at All Time High...

[westoncharm]

Remember this, the biggest lie is, "Free Shipping". I'm in logistics. Someone is paying for it.

[yup]

I wish they actually catch up Amazon in E-Commerce

[RR-idrh]

Never. Walmart' online store is one of the most user unfriendly I've ever used

[TitanTubs]

"Walmart has no online services"
*Walmart ebooks* : Am I a joke to you?

[Striker_]

Never thought I'd be cheering on Walmart.. ☠️☠️
Where Walmart has a chance with online is that a lot of people don't like the brick and mortar shopping because it feels ghetto. With online, or drive up pickup, you avoid that negative side of it