In a rush to keep up with Amazon and the booming business of e-commerce, Walmart has turned to an assortment of last-mile providers to cover various regions of the country. These companies handle the most expensive piece of e-commerce fulfillment while Walmart maintains control over product selection and customer data.
Walmart already works with two of the biggest third-party delivery services. DoorDash reaches nearly 2,000 cities in the U.S. and Canada, signed on with the retailer last April, while Postmates services 385 cities as of last July, according to TechCrunch. Walmart also works with California-based Deliv.