BENTONVILLE, Ark. – This week, Walmart began testing a new concept called Walmart Pickup – Grocery, a service that allows customers to order online from a selection of 10,000 grocery and household products and schedule a pickup time for as little as two hours or as far as three weeks in the future. The experiment is taking place at a Walmart warehouse in Bentonville, Arkansas, where the company is headquartered.

With this new concept, Walmart joins a long list of grocery services all created to eliminate the need to actually enter a store. Not surprisingly, the big selling point is convenience, saving shoppers the time and hassle involved in grocery shopping.

The Walmart Pickup service is being run out of one of the retailer’s “click-and-collect” facilities, a warehouse-type building where only employees are allowed inside, rather than at a Walmart retail location. Although the Bentonville warehouse is the sole trial location for the Walmart Pickup service, with no plans announced for an extended trial, many are watching to see how the retail giant’s experiment fares.

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