{"id":10795,"date":"2018-07-23T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10795"},"modified":"2018-07-23T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:10:07","slug":"walmart-day-delivery-across-us-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/07\/walmart-day-delivery-across-us-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart: Same Day Delivery across US in 5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at a <em>Fortune <\/em>conference last week, Jet.com founder and Walmart.com CEO Marc Lore threw down the gauntlet when he commented that within 5 years, Walmart would achieve its goal of providing same-day grocery delivery to most of the US.\u00a0 In doing so, he pointed to Walmart\u2019s 4,700 stores, referring to the combined footprint of its<strong> Walmar<\/strong>t and<strong> Walmart Neighborhood Market<\/strong> banners, which we\u2019ve mapped below (using Chain Store Guide\u2019s Retail Locations Database), along with its nearly 600 <strong>Sam\u2019s Club <\/strong>locations.<\/p>\n<p>To put Walmart\u2019s physical footprint in context, we\u2019ve compared it to that of the nation\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> largest grocer by physical store count, <strong>The Kroger Co., <\/strong>below, and it\u2019s plain to see that if anyone can beat Amazon and its Prime\/Whole Foods infrastructure to the same-day delivery goal, it will be Walmart under Lore\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to Amazon, it currently counts 470 <strong>Whole Foods <\/strong>stores and 7 distribution centers, along with approximately 350 sorting, fulfillment and distribution centers throughout the US.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class='tableauPlaceholder' id='viz1532358341378' style='position: relative'><noscript><a href='#'><img alt='Dashboard 1 ' src='https:&#47;&#47;public.tableau.com&#47;static&#47;images&#47;Wa&#47;WalmartvKrogerFootprint&#47;Dashboard1&#47;1_rss.png' style='border: none' \/><\/a><\/noscript><object class='tableauViz'  style='display:none;'><param name='host_url' value='https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.tableau.com%2F' \/><param name='embed_code_version' value='3' \/><param name='site_root' value='' \/><param name='name' value='WalmartvKrogerFootprint&#47;Dashboard1' \/><param name='tabs' value='no' \/><param name='toolbar' value='yes' \/><param name='static_image' value='https:&#47;&#47;public.tableau.com&#47;static&#47;images&#47;Wa&#47;WalmartvKrogerFootprint&#47;Dashboard1&#47;1.png' \/><param name='animate_transition' value='yes' \/><param name='display_static_image' value='yes' \/><param name='display_spinner' value='yes' \/><param name='display_overlay' value='yes' \/><param name='display_count' value='yes' \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>                <script type='text\/javascript'>                    var divElement = document.getElementById('viz1532358341378');                    var vizElement = divElement.getElementsByTagName('object')[0];                    vizElement.style.width='700px';vizElement.style.height='727px';                    var scriptElement = document.createElement('script');                    scriptElement.src = 'https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/javascripts\/api\/viz_v1.js';                    vizElement.parentNode.insertBefore(scriptElement, vizElement);                <\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison, and Amazon has an advantage in that it\u2019s already offering same-day delivery on some grocery products in a number markets. 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