Update after pickup 10/19/17: Walmart sent me an email at 9:30a saying my order was ready. We had downloaded the App and clicked on "We're on our way" and when we got there they were coming out of the building with our order. He loaded it nicely in the trunk, answered all my questions, and we were on our way in five minutes. The eggs were NOT cracked, the bananas were perfect, the frozen food was frozen nicely....and we were given a nice gift basket of stuff that is useful. We definitely will be using this service!!Original Post: We do a lot of our grocery and staple shopping at Wal-mart, sharing with Aldi's and Publix and BJ's Warehouse....and yesterday, for the first time, we ordered groceries online with Walmart.
You go to Walmart/grocery and create an account http://r.wmt.co/gMSNg if you don't already have one and pick out what you want to order...i.e., 4 bananas, 1 gal of 2% milk, the various cat foods, pharmacy products...you name it. You see a complete description of each item with photo's.....so if you search for say toothpaste all the toothpaste they sell scrolls down with pricing and detail. It actually very civilized...you can do it from a phone, tablet or notebook computer. After you finish shopping you "check out" and pay for it with your preferred credit card, and set up a "pick up" time at the store. We're going to pick our up order this morning between 10 and 11 (they'll email me when it's ready, and I'll respond when we're leaving to pick it up). They load it in the car and off we go to home. The price you pay is the same as if you shopped in the store...no packing fees at all.
This is a "test" for us....I purposely chose some things that will give us an idea on how their packers do. Eggs, produce, things from pharmacy and frozen foods....a good variety to see how it's packed (are the banana's right, any eggs cracked, how hard is the ice cream?)
I also purposely "added to" the order after we'd closed it out and paid for it. They let you do that up to 12 hours prior to your scheduled pick-up, and I went in and added about 5 items. Once you do that it's just another debit hit to your card and the new order is combined with the old....very slick. :).
Most of us have shopped on Amazon and found it to be very seamless, and I think Wal-mart could be onto something with this grocery business. What we're losing is the extended walk and exercise through the big-box store, the waiting in line, the parking hassles... We'll do our walk outside at the town marina-park area and let Wal-mart pack the groceries. Could be a win-win! This is rolling out country-wide...just came to Titusville starting today and we're on it like white on rice :).
Please use this link if you decide to try the service....it will help the starving Payette's of Titusville: http://r.wmt.co/gMSNg
https://grocery.walmart.com/help#about-walmart-grocery
