Walmart’s Plan to Deliver Dunkin' Donuts Hits DoorDash’s Turf Like a Discount Tornado
KEY POINTS
- •Walmart began as a discount store in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962 and has since experimented with many business lines.
- •CEO John Furner explained in June that Walmart's growth comes from trying new concepts and learning from failures.
- •Walmart’s latest move partners with Dunkin’, adding 10,000 US locations to its delivery service to compete with DoorDash and Uber Eats.
Since starting as a humble discount merch slinger in 1962 Arkansas, Walmart has tried everything from Costco-collar-biter Sam’s Club in 1982–83 to home improvement flops like 1975’s Sav-Co, which lasted about as long as your New Year’s diet. CEO John Furner proudly summed up Walmart's 'try, learn, fail, repeat' mantra in June, laughing off crash-and-burn bids. Their pharmacy now funnels a staggering $36.8 billion in prescriptions annually, zipping some meds in under 30 minutes like caffeinated ninjas. Innovating beyond aisles, Walmart’s latest hustle is gliding into restaurant delivery via a massive Dunkin’ collab with 10,000 US locations, directly poking DoorDash and Uber Eats in the eye. It’s a retail octopus trying to juggle groceries, tires, ads, and now your coffee and donuts — all while making the American hypermarket into a giant ‘everything under one roof’ chaos amusement park.
Share the Story
(1 of 3)Walmart’s strategy: if you can’t beat DoorDash, just sock it with 10,000 Dunkin' locations and hope caffeine fuels an apocalypse of delivery apps.
Nothing says ‘retail innovation’ like a 1962 discount store trying to deliver your Dunkin' faster than Uber Eats can check his GPS signal.
Walmart's new delivery plan is basically 'Why order from one place when you can confuse the hell out of all of them at once?'
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 9/5/2026 | Author: Dominick Reuter
More Articles in Business
Sydney Sweeney's $1M Flop, Trump-Approved Jeans & Bathwater Soap Fiasco
Digital Nomad Trapped in Lisbon FOMO, Ends Up BFF Ghosted
Tesla Launches Wheel-Free Robotaxi, Regulators Immediately Peek Over the Fence
GoPro Merges for National Security, Forgetting Largest YouTuber Shareholder
Coffee Boss Nearly Banned Blueberry Matcha Because Simplicity Felt Like Witchcraft
Man Bakes Baklava For 12 Hours While AI Billionaires Rent Fort Knox
Y Combinator Cofounder Warns Startups Are The Ultimate Coolness Tax
Volkswagen to Kiss 50,000 Jobs Goodbye While Battling Chinese Cars and Tariffs
