Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is taking on competitive threats from Amazon.com Inc. and other big online retailers by testing out home delivery of groceries.
The Bentonville, Ark., retailer launched a new service Saturday in the San Jose, Calif., area called Walmart To Go that allows customers to purchase food, health-and-beauty products, medicine and other basic household goods online and have them delivered to their doorsteps for fees starting at $5.
A number of other retailers, including Amazon and Sears Holdings Corp., are experimenting with similar sales models, which have become common in Europe and are available in some large U.S. cities, but the business is still largely the domain of smaller retailers in the U.S.
Wal-Mart said the home-delivery test was limited to a single market and may not be expanded further, depending on the results. Wal-Mart declined to elaborate.
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