https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...t-with-amazon/

 

Walmart is sending its delivery drivers to businesses around the block.
The retail titan announced Tuesday that it will expand its last-mile delivery service — the final leg of an item’s journey to a home or business — to other clients, offering what it called a “white label” logistics platform to outside merchants.
The announcement raises the stakes in the ever-growing e-commerce battles between Walmart and archrivals Amazon and Target. It also puts Walmart in direct competition with logistics power players FedEx, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
Walmart had previously restricted its last-mile service to the delivery of its own products. The program, called Walmart GoLocal, opens new revenue streams for the company by expanding its access to inventory and increasing delivery density, the golden goose of logistics business models.

 

I thought they had a deal with FedEx. Everybody wants a piece of the logistics pie lately. Anyone think they will buy an airline?

 

They have to fix their app experience if they want me to use it like the Amazon app.

 

They do have a deal. FDX shipping centers in Walmart stores. FDX locations beside Walmart distribution centers to ship online orders. The. The ongoing stories of Walmart buying FDX if Fred sells.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance...162651940.html

 

Always Good for Distributers/Manufacturers/Innovators to have/own logistics capability. Walmart, Amazon, Target, etc are ”Vertical” providing consumer goods while FedEx, UPS, DHL, ATI, ABX, Atlas, Kalitta, etc. are “Horizontal” and do nothing more than transport. We create nothing we sell nothing but movement from A to B, etc. Vertical has always worked with and never FOR the horizontal. Horizontal has worked with or FOR the Vertical which streamlines the process more often than not. Most everyone will eventually team up or secure their horizontal network before others do as it can be scarce at times. Just another way to monopolize a system.

 

Yeah, China Eastern Airlines, a Walmart Tradition since 1993.