Name: Walmart drive-through
Uploaded: 2014-10-02
Duration: 1 min 35 s
Description: Walmart drive-through

Walmart's newest idea actually aims to keep you out of the store. A drive through grocery front for the big box retailer, launched this week in Bentonville, Arkansas, home of global headquarters. Walmart Pickup Grocery is pretty simple. You order on line, up to three weeks in advance, and then notify the store within two hours of wanting to show up to grab your stuff. CEO Bill Simon announced the plan earlier this year during an investor's conference, and the test site's not getting bad reviews from the citizens of Bentonville. One man, who posted a video to YouTube with the comment least painful shopping trip ever, got his order about nine minutes after he typed in his confirmation number. Presumably an extremely convenient. Feature considering he had three kids in the back who would have had to go into the store with him otherwise. But some suggest Wal Mart pick up might not just be for customers convenient sake. Consumerist theorized in Mya, since customers pay in advance and never enter the store. There'd be no need to hire cashiers. Fresh and frozen items wouldn't be exposed to warm temperatures, and stocking would be in an entirely warehouse setting. The emphasis would presumably be on efficient storage and access, rather than having to concern itself with whether one brand of ketchup is positioned in a more marketing- friendly location than others. Or if chips and salsa are in the same isle. There's no extra charge for people using the test site. And Walmart may expand the idea to other locations if the test goes well. It also virtually eliminates the chances your mug will ever show up on the dreaded peopleofwalmart. com. So there's that