Wal-Mart offering free shipping to local stores for orders placed online

Wal-Mart offering free shipping to local stores for orders placed online

Retailing giant Wal-Mart Stores has announced that they are now offering free shipping on thousands of items purchased on its Web site for pickup on local stores. They are offering this service at more than 750 of its U.S. stores.

Incidentally, they have been testing this special program since 2004 and it would be expanded to cover more than 3,300 stores by late summer.

The company believes that this would help them gain additional sales as web users would find it easier to order stuff online to pick them locally at their stores.

Mike Smith, Walmart.com’s director of store integration claimed that their testing has shown that customers spent an additional $60 in its stores when they went to pick up their orders.

Raul Vazquez, Walmart.com’s chief executive added that most web users are availing this service to order items which are only sold on their website. Most retail stores cannot carry all the items they sell online and as a result, customers get this added advantage of getting rarely find stuff.

Vazquez added: “When we develop new services, it is with the Wal-Mart customer in mind.”