Walmart’s Fast Delivery Drives 24% E-Commerce Sales Growth
Walmart is using its stores and delivery network to improve fulfillment speed, with about 70% of online orders delivered the same day and e-commerce sales up 24%.
What are the key facts?
- 1E-commerce sales grew 24%
- 2About 70% of orders delivered the same day
- 3Orders delivered within three hours accounted for 37%
What happened?
Walmart’s e-commerce sales growth is linked to store-based fulfillment and its fast-delivery network. The company uses physical stores to process online orders and combines them with the Spark delivery network to provide local delivery services.
The report showed that about 70% of Walmart’s online orders can be delivered the same day, with approximately 37% delivered within three hours. Stores therefore serve not only traditional retail functions but also support the picking, processing and delivery of online orders.
During the same period, Walmart’s e-commerce sales grew 24%, and online business accounted for more than 23% of total revenue. The company is continuing to expand the reach and delivery speed of online orders through its store network, in-store fulfillment and fast delivery.
What does this mean for cross-border sellers?
Walmart is making delivery speed a basic e-commerce capability, so sellers are competing not only on platform traffic but also on inventory location and fulfillment time. Focusing only on product-page conversion without checking local inventory and delivery promises can cause sellers to lose comparable-product competition to faster suppliers. Highest-priority action: This week, review inventory distribution, delivery times and stockout rates by major sales region, prioritizing high-turnover products.