Walmart continues to explore new ways to make it easier for customers to pick up goods purchased online.
The discounter is expanding its deployment of a giant self-service kiosk, which it calls a Pickup Tower, that spits out online orders to users of Walmart’s buy-online-pickup-in-store service. Walmart debuted the technology last fall, in a store in Bentonville, Ark., close its headquarters.
“Much like a high-tech vending machine for your online orders, this feature…allows you to pick up items in less than a minute by scanning a barcode sent to your smartphone,” stated Mark Ibbotson, executive VP of central operations, Walmart U.S., in a blog on the company’s website.
