Walmart online grocery has become my way of survival in the busiest season of our lives. Don’t get me wrong, I still love visiting the local grocery store, especially for meat and cheese, but hearing even one more glowing Walmart grocery pickup review had me knowing that I was missing out on a terrific service.
Save money, and time by also trying out the Walmart pick up for groceries. You’ll be going back for more, I can almost guarantee …
This is my entire Walmart store pickup review – hear what I love and what I’d change all right here.
So, you didn’t think I was going to write this entire post without offering a coupon, right? If you decide to try the Walmart pick up groceries service for the first time, you’ll save $10 off your $50 order when you make an account here and/or use Walmart Grocery pickup coupon code WOWFRESH at checkout!
Use your free $10 coupon here!
Don’t worry though, I’m going to give you everything you need to decide if online Walmart grocery is for you and your family (spoiler alert: if you work, have kids or love your free time, it is!)
OK, we should start with how to use the service?
If you’re like me you get a tad bit nervous trying new things. But, once you see that something is beneficial, saves you money, and saves you precious time I ca almost guarantee that you’ll be all over ordering groceries online as well.
To use the Walmart Grocery Service use these steps, I’ll go into more detail later:
1. Sign up for an account here
2. Search for and add groceries to your order
3. Head to checkout
4. Find your nearest pickup location
5. Choose the one hour window that you can arrive at Walmart to pick up your order
6. Choose your payment method
7. Submit your order
8. Show up at the time you selected for your groceries to be loaded into your car
That’s literally it! That’s all there is to using the service.
Three Benefits of Using Walmart’s Grocery Service:
1. Time
When I use the grocery pickup service that Walmart provides I not only save time by not spending 90 minutes in the store that I don’t have, but I also save time by not going to store after store because I forgot to add something to my list. This is because I add things to my Walmart Grocery app as the week goes on. Shampoo (check), toilet paper (check), hair ties (check), ranch dressing (check). You know, the things that you only need every once in awhile, but when you need them, you really need them.
Sure, accidents happen and every once in awhile I’ll forget to add something that I need for dinner tonight, but that is few and far between.
2. Money
Because you can swipe to delete items from your Walmart Grocery cart, it’s easy to remove things on your last review of your order before you hit ‘submit’. You know, for those things that you wanted but didn’t need (insert a fancy new hairbrush or dish towels).
3. Remain on Schedule
I know this might sound silly. But whenever I head to a supercenter (any of them) I inevitably see someone I know. And, this leads to conversation, and sometimes, I end up killing 15-30 minutes chatting about the weather and kids and, and … this … and that.
Nothing against my daughter’s kindergarten teachers nieces cousins interesting life story, but ain’t nobody got time for that.
So, by using the online grocery Walmart service I stay on schedule and can still check off all of those items on my list.
Don’t get me wrong, I love shopping and chatting and all things me time, but not many things feel as great as checking off that to-do list, right??
How do you use Walmart pickup?
Let’s go more into depth on the 8 steps of using the Walmart Grocery Pickup service so that it’s not totally foreign when you’re ready to try it.
1. Sign up for an account
Note that when you sign up for an account you must be using the Walmart Grocery app rather than the Walmart.com app that you’re likely used to.
Head here to make a Walmart Grocery account. This is different than a Walmart.com account.
If you use your phone a lot, which is my favorite way to use the service, get the ios app here LINK and the android app here.
Enter the email address you use for your personal stuff and make a password that you’ll remember.
This is the email that Walmart will send you emails to to notify you when your order’s been submitted, when your order is ready and likely most importantly any substitutions that they’ve chosen for you.
After you use the service you’ll get your own referral code and you can get $10 any time one of your friends tries the service with your code. (There’s a limit to 20 referrals a year.)
** Use a good email, because you’ll want to have an open line of communication. I like to review any substitutions before I arrive to pickup my order so I know for sure if they’re going to work. Once I was substituted a 48 oz. bag of caramel m&m’s for the 12 oz. that I had paid for – as you can imagine, that was the best sub ever, because when they sub an item (if Walmart is out or can’t find an equal item) they’ll just go up a size (or four in this case. I was doing the happy dance when I got that sub!
But, then there was the time where they subbed my whole wheat artisan bread with a loaf of Great Value wheat bread. Wasn’t gonna fly with my family, so I had to turn it down. In this case, they leave the item out of your car and take it off your receipt. It stinks, but thankfully this doesn’t happen often and I think that Walmart has really worked out the kinks in their sub list, so that is few and far between.
Just recently I ordered two tubes of cinnamon rolls and ended up getting subbed for two 2-packs of cinnamon rolls. That was extra awesome. 🙂
2. Search for and add groceries to your order
When you search for ‘buns’ using the magnifying glass you’re going to get a whole slew of items. It’s bewhove of you to narrow down your search to not be bombarded. Try searching for more specific things like “hot dog buns” or “hamburger buns” or “brat buns” to get your best options available.
Pay attention to the quantity that you’re adding to your cart as well. I have done this more than once so it’s worth mentioning. Read the weight/item on each item. For example, if you see a ‘bunch’ of bananas, and you add ‘1’ to your cart, you’ll literally get one banana. So, I’ll usually do ‘8’ or ’10’ or whatever I need for bananas.
This small annoyance is never enough to make me not do online grocery shopping though!
3. Head to checkout
Press the cart with your total in the upper righthand corner and head to checkout where you can review your order, change amounts and even delete items.
4. Find your nearest pickup location
Make sure that your order is coming into the correct Walmart. I don’t know what would happen if it didn’t but I don’t think I’d want to find out.
5. Choose the one hour window that you can arrive at Walmart to pick up your order
When you order the day before you’ll have several one hour pick up times available starting (usually) at 7am and ending at 9pm.
You’ll want to plan on arriving at the pickup doors in a pickup spot (they’re numbered on one of the sides of your Walmart store within that timeframe.
6. Choose your payment method
You won’t be charged until your order has been picked up. To be honest I don’t know what happens if you don’t pickup the order that you submitted, but I do know that that wouldn’t be cool. If you absolutely cannot get there to pickup your groceries I would find the phone number of Walmart and ask for the grocery pickup department and let them know.
7. Submit your order
You’ll get an email confirming your order as well as a time that you can add groceries to your order and still have them added to this order. If you can no longer add them to this order, then you’ll see your item added to a new, empty cart.
** I recommend you add your phone number to the check out screen so that you get a text alert when your order is ready.
8. Show up at the time you selected for your groceries to be loaded into your car
When you get an email/text that says that your order is ready for pickup, be sure to checkin. The Walmart grocery app will use your location to determine when to bring your groceries to your cart.
The app will use your location so be sure not to close the app on your way there.
How long does Walmart grocery pickup take?
From the time that you arrive in your pickup spot to the time that your groceries are loaded into your car, to pick up groceries at Walmart you’ll be out about 10 minutes, tops. That’s a HUGE time savings!
Do all Walmarts have grocery pickup?
Most, if not all do! You can see all of the grocery pickup locations here.
What are all the confirmed locations for free grocery pickup at Walmart?
You can see all of the confirmed locations here.
Are the Walmart grocery delivery reviews good too?
There is a $7-$8 fee to take advantage of the Walmart grocery delivery service, and I’m uber frugal so I’ve always used the free pickup service.
I have neighbors who use Walmart grocery delivery and they love it though!
Does Walmarts grocery pick up service include a higher individual item price?
You pay not a penny more to take advantage of these services from Walmart, and contrary to what may be popular belief there is no fee or additional charge added on to the price of groceries.
Are Walmart groceries good?
I love Walmart’s groceries! I do have to admit however that I still get 95% of our meat from the local grocery store just because their meat is really, really good and so economically priced as well.
How does Walmarts grocery pickup make money?
If you don’t have time to shop you might choose to just go to the local grocery around the corner. But, offering this service inevitably gives Walmart more of your money.
And, that’s how they benefit from offering this service.
How do I pickup my Walmart grocery order?
Just pull up to the side of your Walmart that has grocery pickup signs pointing to it. You can’t miss it.
What do you think of Walmart grocery pickup service?
I LOVE the Walmart grocery pickup service. I especially love the fact that I can get my laundry detergent, deodorant, etc. added onto my order. I really only have to go in to my store to get greeting cards. How could I not love that??
Are you supposed to tip the Walmart grocery pick up person?
There is no need to tip the grocery pick up person that brings your groceries out to the car. They’re paid hourly.
Can Walmart pickup be used for non grocery items like clothing?
Not clothing, but like I mentioned, anything in the beauty area: Q-tips, shampoo, conditioner, saving cream, makeup, lotion, sunscreen.
These things are all fair game.
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