Walmart is teaming up withInstacart to delivergroceries to parts of New York City.- Customers in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx will be able to sign up for this service.
- It pits Walmart against
Amazon , which already offers speedy grocerydelivery services in New York.
Walmart said Tuesday it is partnering with Instacart to deliver groceries to parts of New York City, The Wall Street Journal first reported.
Customers in areas of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx will be able to have groceries collected by Instacart drivers from stores outside the city and delivered to their homes. Instacart is a same-day delivery service that pairs users with gig workers who shop for and deliver their orders.
Walmart previously offered grocery delivery in New York through its Jet.com service, which was shut down in 2020. Aside from this, the
The move will allow Walmart to better compete with Amazon, which offers its Amazon Fresh delivery services for grocery in New York and has been ramping up speedy delivery options in urban areas.
"It's about reaching more customers," a Walmart spokesperson told The Journal, who said the
This isn't the first time Walmart has teamed up with Instacart. The two companies partnered in 2019 to offer grocery delivery services to 200 Walmart stores across Canada. In 2020, it extended these same-day delivery options to parts of the US, including California and Oklahoma.
At the time, Moody's analyst Charlie O'Shea described the partnership as Walmart's latest "salvo in its delivery arms race with Amazon."
"Walmart will continue to leverage its 5,300-plus physical locations in the US, which is a compelling competitive advantage as it provides consumers with a same-day pick-up option, with same-day delivery augmenting this capability, creating a very powerful one-two punch," he said, Insider's Áine Cain reported in 2020.