Walmart wants to challenge Amazon on e-commerce

The Walmart retail giant, who has thousands of shops scattered throughout the United States and who seemed like a dinosaur in the online shopping era, has equipped himself and aims to snatch the domination of e -commerce at Amazon, just leveraging his network of stores. This was revealed by the Wall Street Journal, according to which Walmart delivered five billion items on the same day when they were ordered last year, twice the number delivered in 2023 Amazon does not release figures that allow an exact comparison of its day delivery range. But Walmart’s temptular delivery network, which in some areas is faster than Amazon’s, represents a leap forward that would have been unimaginable only a few years ago.

“I am very, very grateful to have about 4,700 stores“, who now double as a quick delivery hub, said John Furner, CEO of Walmart Us, in an interview.” It is something that perhaps a few years ago people would not have expected that we would be able to deliver on a large scale. “To carry out most of these rapid deliveries, the giant relies on thousands of freelance drivers who use a system called Spark, created by Walmart, That Use an app to coordinate online orders from its supermarket fleet. About 41% of all e-commerce sales in the United States takes place through Amazon, a much larger share of Walmart 9%. Amazon could overcome Walmart this year as the largest company in the country by turnover if the sales trends persist.

Walmart recorded a turnover of 681 billion dollars in 2024; Amazon’s was 638 billion dollars. But after years of attempts, tests and failures, Walmart has carved out a niche that Amazon is trying to recover: the rapid delivery of online orders that often include economic food and, more and more often, other items that sells in its stores, such as clothes, decorations, batteries and medicinal medical prescription. A spokesman for Amazon has refused to reveal the share of US families who can now receive his expeditions during the day. Buyers in over 3,500 cities and countries of the United States have access to the delivery of food in some form through Amazon, he said, and the company can deliver millions of articles on the same day.

The company claims to have delivered over two billion items that defines “everyday essential goods”, such as cleaning and paper napkins products, the same day or the following day in the United States last year. These figures do not include fresh food, but is working to quickly add these items to its day delivery warehouses. “I don’t think Walmart will ever really reach the size of Amazon online“, said Blake Droesch, retail analyst for Emarketer, who monitors e-commerce.” But Walmart is one of the few retailers who had the capital and strategy to organize a real defense “.