I did a search and didn't find anything, and this is the first I'd seen it mentioned on their site.
Seems like Walmart.com has lowered their free shipping cutoff from $50 to $35 and added a new 2 day shipping, and seemingly have gotten rid of their Prime-like membership shipping service. Items not marked as "2-Day Shipping" will be 3-5 days but still free over $35.
I did a search and didn't find anything, and this is the first I'd seen it mentioned on their site.
Seems like Walmart.com has lowered their free shipping cutoff from $50 to $35 and added a new 2 day shipping, and seemingly have gotten rid of their Prime-like membership shipping service. Items not marked as "2-Day Shipping" will be 3-5 days but still free over $35.
I just ordered a few Fox UHD that were cheaper than anywhere else. I was surprised to see that each item would ship free 2-day. It's projecting they will be delivered on Thursday which is pretty crazy for ordering just before 2pm EST. Site to store is also 2 day now.
Walmart just made a move that should terrify Amazon.
Starting Tuesday at 8 a.m., Walmart will offer free two-day shipping on 2 million items in orders that are more than $35.
All Walmart customers will qualify for the free two-day shipping. There are no fees, and no enrollment in membership programs is required.
"We upped the ante here and decided not to charge people for it," Marc Lore, CEO of Walmart US e-commerce, said on a call with reporters Monday.
In comparison, Amazon offers free two-day shipping only to members of its Prime program, who pay $99 annually for membership.
Other Amazon users can qualify for free shipping — but without the two-day delivery — on orders of $49 or more.
As a result of the change, Walmart will scrap its ShippingPass, a two-day-shipping program it has been testing for several years that costs $49 annually. The company said it would refund customers currently enrolled in the program.
"At a very fundamental level, we just don't believe in having to charge for a membership," Lore said.
Two million of the 30 million products carried on Walmart's website will be available for two-day shipping. Those items will include Walmart's most popular products, including baby necessities, pet products, foods like cereal and peanut butter, cleaning supplies, electronics, and toys, the company said.
Customers must spend $35 for free two-day shipping to their homes, but there is no spending threshold for free two-day shipping to stores.
Offering free two-day shipping can be a costly and profit-draining endeavor for retailers — which explains why Amazon charges customers $99 annually for the service.
When asked whether Walmart could raise prices to offset the cost of the new service, Lore responded with an emphatic "no."
"It won't affect our pricing at all," he said. "In fact, we are looking to get even more aggressive on the pricing side."
Lore said this is the first of many announcements to come for Walmart e-commerce, which he characterized as "moving at the speed of a startup."
"We've got a lot of things planned for the year," he said. "This is the first of many."
Sears and Kmart will be dead soon. My local Sears is closing and I don't see the local Kmart lasting till the end of the year maybe.
Kmart's have been closed in my area for years. My Sears seems dead during the week when I walk by the mall on my way to work looking at the lack of cars in the parking lot. The last time I went into Sears into Sears it was dead and elctronics was reduced to nothing. I don't need any tools, seeing as my grandad used to work at Sears years ago well before the current CEO drove the company to the ground.
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