Walmart employees will soon deliver their groceries straight to your fridge

Starting this fall in the United States, Walmart customers in some cities may choose to have their groceries delivered directly to their refrigerator when they are not home. The InHome service will use Walmart vehicles and its own workers equipped with exclusive portable cameras. Using undisclosed "smart entry technology", Walmart employees will be able to enter their homes to make deliveries, while customers will be able to control access and monitor deliveries remotely.

Walmart takes the order "from the food department to the refrigerator," according to a company statement.

InHome services will be launched this fall and will be available to more than one million customers in three cities: Kansas City, Missouri; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Vero Beach, Florida. Delivery charges for the new service have not been announced, nor any details on how Walmart employees will enter your home. Reuters note that Amazon has tested a similar service in 2017 with August Home as a partner. It was dissolved a year later.

Walmart indicates that its employees will receive extensive training to ensure that they treat clients' homes with the same care and respect as the homes of their friends or family. They will also be trained in the efficient refrigerator. "

Later this year, customers will also be able to return items purchased on Walmart.com by leaving them on the counter for InHome support agents to pick up.

"We can now serve customers not only in the last mile, but in the last 15 feet," Walmart said in a statement.

InHome will be in direct competition with Amazon's home delivery service Key, which can deliver your parcels inside your home, garage or in the trunk of your car. Walmart is fighting an increasingly fierce battle against Amazon in the United States. More recently, Walmart launched a free delivery service in one day.