Walmart Eliminates Pickup Fee for Online Grocery Orders
By Simon Hung
August 1, 2017Walmart is making online grocery shopping more affordable, because they’ve eliminated the pickup fee for online grocery orders, effective immediately.
Previously, Walmart charged a $2.97 fee for shoppers who scheduled a Walmart Grocery Pickup order. A minimum order of $50.00 is still required to use the service, but pickup is now free for all orders.
Walmart launched Grocery Pickup in 2015 after Loblaw launched their similar Click and Collect service one year earlier. Walmart provides the service in Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa and Toronto, which lets shoppers purchase groceries online, including fresh produce and meat, then schedule a time to pickup the order at a Walmart store or Penguin Pickup location. Your order is hand-picked by staff and a scheduled delivery option is also available, but the home delivery fee remains unchanged at $9.97 per order.
Our community manager Tom tested the service in 2016 and provided a positive review, as it helped save time by eliminating the chore of in-store grocery shopping. The service was also efficient as trips averaged less than 10 minutes and other benefits like ad-matching and a money back guarantee were bonuses that were worth the $2.97 pickup fee.
With the pickup fee eliminated, this should make Walmart an even more attractive option for online grocery shopping, especially with the frequency of grocery coupons that appear in our Hot Deals forum. Click here to learn more about Walmart Grocery Pickup and view a list of participating stores in your area.
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If you have time to shop grocery, why you need to pay extra money and ask someone pickup the product for you. Also, asking someone to choose the product for you may not work for all products like meat, fruit, vegetable, etc even though they can pick the fresh one for you. For example, the person may not know the size of product you want or he may not know which portion of the meat/chop you need for your meal/recipe. By the way, should Walmart deducts the $2.97 from my receipt if I pickup the product by myself ?? lol.
Honestly, without the incentive, even without the fee, I probably will not use the service. (1), there is no designated in-store area to do the pickup which is not feasible for winter. (2) they should not ONLY allocated few outdoor spots for the pickup. People use this service are busy, they don't want any line-up at all. Anywhere in the parking should be a pickup area (3) I still enjoy walk around the store and find some new products to try (4) The online store doesn't cover everything in-store and some products are even more expensive than store.
They need to revise the in-store pickup concept. Otherwise, online delivery will still be dominated over the store pickup in the future.
For the online shopping, Walmart is getting more strict. Many grocery products cannot be pickup from the Canada Post with spending only $25. You have to spend over $50 to delivery to home. I remember one time I cannot even choose more than 1 grocery product even I spend over $50 from the non-grocery section. Maybe there was a glitch.
I guess they are concerned about this Amazon - Whole Foods thing?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/walmart ... -1.4230406
*they still have the minimum $50 order requirement.
https://www.walmart.ca/en
https://www.walmart.ca/en/grocery-edmonton
http://www.walmart.ca/en/help/grocery?expand=1#ad_match
there were tons of times I'd have ordered something from them online but the $50 cost to ship is like NOT
I love the concept and convenience that the services offer, I just don't trust that I'll get the best quality unless I go and pick it out myself.
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I can really see the benefit of a service like this. They even bring it out to your car! LOL
I wonder if they are going to pricematch with this service....
I also like to browse around the store to see what I want to buy.
I don't know if it is a bug or there is a new policy. Because of the new pick-up service, have they made it that you can't order groceries online? (for example drinks, pasta etc)
I have no interest at all in the pick up service but if they have changed to this then they have lost me as an online customer.
Personally, even though it's much more expensive, I would much rather just subscribe to one of those organic produce delivery services than to have Walmart employees pick out my produce from already mediocre quality stock.
https://shop.loblaws.ca/
You can see the list of stores here:
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edit: posted wrong link originally