Walmart near mall to offer grocery pickup services

Kingsridge Drive store also plans $350,000 remodel to interior.

A local Walmart store will undergo a $350,000 remodel, which will allow the store to offer online grocery pickup services.

Walmart will add online grocery pickup services to its store located at 8800 Kingsridge Drive in Miami Twp. near the Dayton Mall.

The store will also undergo a major interior remodel worth $350,000, according to an application for permit submitted to the Montgomery County building regulations division.

A spokeswoman for Walmart told this news organization that the chain is remodeling hundreds of stores across the country. The remodel will include renovating specific parking spots for grocery pickup services. The service could be offered, tentatively, as soon as this summer.

Customers order their purchases online, and pick up the order at the store for no extra fee. Customers can plug in their ZIP code to see if their stores are eligible for pickup.

The retailer is also testing out delivery concepts, where employees hand deliver orders to customers’ doorsteps. Walmart said once the employees are finished with their store shift, they can pick up the packages from the backroom, load them into their vehicle and drop them off on their way home.

Walmart also began testing grocery delivery through crowdsourced services like Uber in 2016.

Now, the chain retailer is expanding its grocery delivery pilot in two more markets — Orlando, Fla., and Dallas.