Your future Walmart online orders could soon arrive faster with four 'next generation' fulfillment centers over the next few years.
online orders could soon arrive faster.over the next three years, which will provide 75% of the U.S. with next- and two-day shipping on millions of items.
The company said the four centers will rely heavily on automation and be the "first of their kind for Walmart" using a combination of "people, robotics, and machine learning."The other centers will be in McCordsville, Indiana; Lancaster, Texas; and Greencastle, Pennsylvania — with each planning to hire more than 1,000 new workers.According to a
, U.S. consumers spent $1.7 trillion online between March 2020 and February 2022, $609 billion more than in the two preceding years.Walmart said its priority is to "strategically locate" the centers to pair "most effectively with our 4,700 stores and 210 distribution centers." Walmart has 31 existing dedicated e-commerce fulfillment centers and with the new centers said it will be able to reach 95% of the U.S. population with next- or two-day shipping.Together, this system of fulfillment assets is optimized to get orders to customers fast and efficiently," David Guggina, senior vice president of innovation and automation at Walmart U.S., wrote in a