Walmart Expands Into Restaurant Delivery Market to Challenge DoorDash
Retail giant Walmart is launching a new food delivery service focused on ready-to-eat items like coffee, sandwiches, and pastries to directly compete with established platforms such as DoorDash and Uber Eats. The move signals Walmart’s broader strategy to capture convenience retail share.
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Why Walmart is moving in on DoorDash, Uber Eats delivery action, starting with donuts, coffee and sandwiches
Walmart's deal to deliver for Dunkin' follows one earlier this year for Subway sandwiches, as the nation's largest retailer targets Uber Eats and DoorDash.
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Walmart's main business is still its stores, but the company is always trying new things too. Bloomberg/Getty Images Walmart's move into restaurant delivery is another expansion from selling general merchandise. Since Sam Walton, the retail giant has placed big bets on new lines of business inspired by others. Here's a look back at some of the strategies that worked well for Walmart — and a few that didn't. Walmart got its start in 1962 selling general merchandise as a discount store in Rog...
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