U.S. retail1 giant Walmart announced Tuesday that it will provide customers with free next-day delivery covering hundreds of thousands of "most frequently purchased" items.
美国零售业巨头沃尔玛周二宣布，将向顾客提供数十万种“经常购买”商品免费的次日送达服务。
Marc
Lore2, president and CEO of Walmart eCommerce U.S., said in a statement that the next-day delivery program covers "220,000 of the items most frequently purchased, ranging from diapers and laundry
detergent3 to toys and electronics, with more
assortment4 to be added."
"It is available on
eligible5 orders of 35 dollars or more, with the specific assortment varying by customer location," he added.
Next-day delivery, according to Lore, will be available first to Walmart.com customers in
Phoenix6, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, and will expand to Southern California in the coming days.
Walmart will gradually roll out the plan in the coming months. It expects the new sales strategy to reach approximately 75 percent of the U.S. population this year, which includes 40 of the top 50 major U.S.
metro7 areas, said the statement.
Walmart started with same-day in-store
pickup8 in 2011 and began offering two-day free
shipping9 in 2017 with no membership fee, according to the statement.
Walmart's new initiative was viewed by U.S. media as a measure to compete with rivals in the retail
sector10, as it came after Amazon announced on April 25 that it would spend 800 million dollars in the second quarter for free one-day delivery for all of its Prime members.
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