Walmart greenlights hundreds more Pickup Towers

Walmart is set to add more than 500 additional online order collection Pickup Towers to its Stateside stores, bringing the total to 700-plus by the end of the year. This means that the machines will be available to nearly 40% of the US population.

“These machines became a reality in nearly 200 of our stores over the last year,” the retailer says. “The response has been overwhelmingly positive. In fact, more than half a million orders have been retrieved through the towers since we first introduced them. Our customers also told us they wanted the ability to retrieve larger items the same way. That’s why every new Pickup Tower will come with Pickup Lockers, making it just as easy to pick up that new TV as it is to pick up a new baseball glove.”

It also flags up such services as Online Grocery Pickup, Pickup Discount, Mobile Express Scan & Go, its grocery delivery service and a new partnership with Google Express. “We’re even testing additional concepts, similar to the Pickup Tower, that could make picking up your online order even better in the future,” it says.