Walmart seeks to expand delivery options for its consumers with a new drone service that will be expanded in six states, reported the giant of retail sales.
Despite the disappointing results in the first quarter of the year and the slowdown in retail purchases, Walmart has decided to expand the delivery options for four million of its customers.
In a post on its official blog, the store confirmed that the new drone service will reach 30 stores in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, Utah and Virginia, starting later this year.
Walmart offers the service with its commercial partner DroneUp and the goal is to deliver around 1 million packages by this means per year.
According to Walmart’s post, the drone delivery service will be available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. night and will have a shipping cost of $3.99 dollars.
Walmart explained that customers will be able to use this service with drones to receive simple items such as Tylenol-type medications, diapers, boxed bread and others that do not exceed 02 pounds of weight.
Deliveries will be made in 30 minutes after the request to send by drone, according to the retail giant.
New strategies in the midst of adverse weather
The news about the expansion of its drone delivery services comes at a time when retailers are facing falls in the value of its shares and changes in the consumer market.
Walmart had a first quarter to forget, with losses of 18% in the value of their shares , after cone cer the earnings results for the first quarter of the year.
But it was not the only , Target had an even more complicated first three months of the year that ended with a drop of 25% in the value of its shares.
Additionally, March was a month in which finally high inflation took its toll on retailers, mainly because consumers stopped buying goods considered durable such as household items and electronics.
The retail purchases report showed a drop of 10.7% in the sale of this type of product during last March, according to a report by NBC News
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Some analysts fear that this type of reports are sample of a possible recession caused by movements in interest rates from of the Federal Reserve, as a strategy to control high inflation.
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