The Dorks From $WMT Will Begin Using Uber, Lyft to Deliver Groceries

These people are Walmart are truly disconnected from their disheveled core customer. Don’t they know they are the defacto welfare state, selling subsidized wares to an underprivileged consumer?

But I guess this makes them feel cool and relevant, having Uber as a vendor for their groceries.

Please.

The retailer will start trying out Uber in Denver and Lyft in Phoenix within the next two weeks, Wal-Mart’s chief operating officer of e-commerce, Michael Bender, said in a blog post. The company previously began a pilot program in March using Deliv to deliver Sam’s Club groceries and other merchandise in Miami.

The move steps up competition with Amazon’s burgeoning grocery-delivery service and provides a potential new avenue of growth for Uber and Lyft. The idea is to let Wal-Mart customers pick out groceries online and then have employees fill the order and give it to one of the ride-hailing companies’ drivers. Shoppers will pay a $7-to-$10 delivery charge to Wal-Mart to have the groceries brought to their door.

“We’ll start small and let our customers guide us, but testing new things like last-mile delivery allow us to better evaluate the various ways we can best serve our customers how, when and where they need us,” Bender said in the post.