Walmart Takes On DoorDash and Uber Eats With Food Delivery Push
Walmart is expanding its delivery ambitions, partnering with Dunkin' and Subway to compete with major third-party apps.
Walmart isn't just about groceries and rollback prices anymore — the retail giant is quietly muscling into the food delivery game, and it's coming for DoorDash and Uber Eats' lunch (and breakfast, and coffee). The nation's largest retailer has inked a deal to deliver Dunkin' orders, adding donuts and coffee to a delivery operation that already includes Subway sandwiches following a partnership struck earlier this year.
This isn't a random pivot. Walmart has the logistics infrastructure, the customer base, and the app real estate to make a serious run at on-demand food delivery. By tying up with recognizable fast-food and quick-service brands, it's essentially saying: why hand off delivery revenue to a middleman when you can own that relationship yourself?
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For shoppers, this could mean more convenience bundled into a single Walmart order — imagine grabbing your weekly essentials and having a box of donuts show up at the same time. For competitors like DoorDash and Uber Eats, it signals that one of the most powerful retailers on the planet is positioning itself as a direct threat to their core business model.
The Dunkin' and Subway partnerships feel like a deliberate strategy: start with universally loved, high-frequency food brands to build delivery habits among Walmart's enormous customer base, then scale from there. Coffee and sandwiches are the kind of everyday purchases that get people into the routine of ordering — and once that habit forms, Walmart wants to be the app you reach for first.
Whether Walmart can genuinely shake up a delivery market that DoorDash and Uber Eats have spent years and billions of dollars building remains to be seen, but the early moves suggest this is more than a toe in the water. Continue reading at US Top News and Analysis.
