Walmart issued a press release to announce that its supply chain is stable and solid for its customers this holiday season, whether through purchases in stores or online.
“Over the past few weeks, you’ve probably seen us highlighting how we’re kicking off the holiday season, offering the best deals on the season’s best toys and bringing on additional partners to make sure customers get what they want and need during the holidays. holidays,” the retailer said in a statement.
“Our supply chain is essential to how we serve customers during the holiday season, and we all know the challenges of the past year. This year, customers face new challenges such as the economic pressure of inflation,” Walmart added.
The retailer notes that global supply chains have improved, but not fully recovered, after the pandemic. It also notes that they are seeing sustained changes in consumer buying behavior, with people doing their holiday shopping earlier than ever.
To ensure the supply chain is ready for this holiday season , Walmart has executed different actions, including:
– Optimizing end-to-end supply chain operations and working closely with carriers at all ports, trains, and deliveries to ensure a efficient flow of merchandise to stores and strong stock levels for customers.
– Fulfilling orders through of its 4,700 stores located within 10 miles of the 90% of the population, and offering pickup and delivery options for more than 240,000 items, with express delivery in 2 hours and free delivery the next day or two days on pedi two online.
– Providing deliveries through the Spark Driver platform, the largest provider of local delivery services that reaches the 40% of US households in 10,000 Pickup Points.
– Having an extended curbside return policy at customers’ local stores and providing more convenience for Walmart+ members through InHome Delivery and easy return from home.
– Testing and expanding local delivery capabilities with delivery of drones and autonomous and electric vehicles, including the expansion of the DroneUp delivery network to 10 sites by the end of the year with the potential to reach 4 million US households in 6 states.
– Build 4 next-generation fulfillment centers in the next 3 years, with the recent opening in Joliet, Illinois.
– Implementation of t automated technology in 3 distribution centers with 3 more scheduled to go live before the end of this year.
– Hire approximately 40,000 associates before the holidays, including investing in and training the team of supply chain associates by growing Walmart’s private fleet.
– Expansion of the driver network by adding 1,500 additional associates to ensure the fleet is ready to drive and deliver this holiday season and beyond.
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