Starting early next year, people in Scottsdale, Az., can place an order from their local Walmart and have it delivered contact-free via one of Cruise's all-electric self-driving cars.
The program with Cruise, the only self-driving car company to operate an entire fleet of all-electric vehicles, isn't Walmart's first foray into self-driving delivery. In Dec. 2019, Walmart announced a Houston-based pilot program to deliver groceries with autonomous vehicle company, Nuro.
Walmart is not the only retailer experimenting with self-driving vehicles. As the technology becomes mainstream and more retailers adopt it, autonomous cars could reshape brick-and-mortar versus e-commerce dynamics.
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Leslie Shaver
Les Shaver has been covering commercial and residential real estate for almost 20 years. His work has appeared in Multifamily Executive, Builder, units, Arlington Magazine in addition to GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum.
