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I just don't see how this will compete with Amazon or Amazon Prime.

You only get free shipping with orders $35 or more. I haven't checked recently but I thought you get that at Amazon without paying for Amazon Prime.

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I think the cnet article may have that point wrong, or at least confusingly worded. I can't find anywhere where Walmart says the order must be $35 to get free delivery with this program, and I know that without subcribing to anything Walmart already offers free shipping on orders over $35. However even on Walmart's own pages it really isn't clear what exactly you get in regards to shipping costs with this program.

I've seen multiple articles mention $35 minimum order.

For example: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/09/01/amazon-prime...

If that isn't true then they aren't getting their message out on why this is a compelling service.

Yeah, it's definitely not clear to me why I might sign up for this even if I always bought from Walmart. Seems to more of a donation to Walmart at this point.

You sort of do on Amazon but they intentionally slow the shipping speed by quite a lot when you opt for that in order to make Prime more appealing.

I'm convinced the slower delivery options are outright lies. After I dropped Prime, I'd see the same threat of a 5-7 day delivery time for an order using free shipping but most of the time it still arrives in 2 or 3 days.

You get free shipping on $35 on walmart.com without WM+ so this isn't an added perk.

The difference is 2-day versus 1-day.

Which doesn't sound that compelling to me.

Agreed.

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