Wal-Mart targets expanded grocery pickup

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — On the same day Target launched a pilot of the Instacart online grocery delivery service, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced it will expand its existing grocery pickup service.



Wal-Mart will provide grocery pickup services in the parking lots of five Neighborhood Market stores in northwest Arkansas by the week of Sept. 21. Currently, Wal-Mart lets customers pick up groceries from the parking lots of a number of stores in the Phoenix, Denver, and Hunstville, Alabama markets, as well as from a location in Bentonville, Arkansas, the city where the company is headquartered.



Customers can order groceries online, schedule a pickup time, and have the items brought out to their car in the parking lot. Minimum order value is $30.