Walmart and DoorDash announced grocery delivery in the Atlanta metro area on April 24, 2018. Customers ordered through Walmart’s grocery website or app; Walmart personal shoppers selected the items, and a DoorDash Dasher collected the order at a Walmart store and delivered it in the customer’s chosen window. The partnership added delivery capacity without moving the shopping interface or item selection away from Walmart. [S1, S2] [S1][S2]

That division matters operationally: Walmart handled the online basket and store-based picking, while DoorDash supplied the final delivery step. The announcement describes a handoff at the store, not DoorDash shopping independently or a separate DoorDash grocery marketplace. It gives no order-volume, delivery-time or cost comparison, so the launch establishes the workflow—not its performance. [S1, S2] [S1][S2]

Walmart’s release listed a $9.95 delivery fee and a $30 minimum order, with no subscription or item-price markup; its first-order promotion required a $50 minimum. Those were the announced Atlanta terms, not evidence that delivery was free or that the promotion applied to every order. [S1] [S1]

The geographic promise was still a target. Walmart said it planned to reach more than 40% of U.S. households with grocery delivery by year-end 2018, building on its March announcement to expand from six markets to more than 100 metro areas. The April release named Atlanta as the initial DoorDash market and said the partnership would broaden in later months; it did not establish that the national target was achieved. [S1, S3] [S1][S3]

Source documents

  1. DoorDash and Walmart Join Forces to Accelerate Retailer's Online Grocery Delivery Offeringhttps://corporate.walmart.com/news/2018/04/24/doordash-and-walmart-join-forces-to-accelerate-retailers-online-grocery-delivery-offering
  2. Your Groceries, Now Deliveredhttps://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/your-groceries-now-delivered
  3. Walmart to Expand Online Grocery Delivery Coast to Coasthttps://corporate.walmart.com/news/2018/03/14/walmart-to-expand-online-grocery-delivery-coast-to-coast