Walmart's 5-Minute Delivery Dream Crushes Reality At 15 Minutes
In the epic race for grocery delivery bragging rights, Walmart, Amazon, and Target are flexing their logistics muscles like toddlers racing in diapers. Walmartâs CEO John Furner proudly announces a jaw-dropping 5-minute fulfillment earlier this year, which sounds like someone hit 'turbo' on the Snack Gods app. But consultant and former Target supply wizard Ralph Asher slaps cold water on the fantasy, revealing 15-minute deliveries would need 31 fulfillment stations just in Minneapolis-Saint Paul â a small city that would soon resemble a dairy-themed Fort Knox with gallons of milk hoarded in 45 locations. Plus, weâre talking expensive robots, gigantic real estate, and an army of Uber-everything drivers ready to abandon Netflix binges at a momentâs notice. So no, your eggs probably wonât show up faster than your kid asks for a snack. Sorry, Walmart, the ultrafast snack apocalypse isn't coming anytime soon.
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Walmartâs 5-minute delivery sounds cool until you realize 15-minute delivery needs 31 mini Walmart-fortresses hoarding milk like itâs liquid gold. Spoiler: ultrafast delivery is basically retailâs version of a midlife crisis with robots and real estate.
The new retail marathon: 31 fulfillment stations to beat 15 minutes. At this rate, why not just clone yourself and skip the delivery altogether?
Walmartâs delivery speed race is turning America into a high-stakes game of Whereâs The Milk? Spoiler: youâll need 45 milk bunkers and a driver whoâs sacrificed every ounce of free time.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 9/29/2025 | Author: Dominick Reuter
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