Walmart teams up with Dunkin' to launch nationwide restaurant delivery service
Walmart announced a partnership with Dunkin' to deliver meals from the coffee chain’s 10,000 U.S. locations, entering the food-delivery market dominated by DoorDash and Uber Eats.
Walmart disclosed a collaboration with Dunkin' that will allow customers to order meals from the coffee chain’s roughly 10,000 U.S. stores for home delivery, directly challenging services like DoorDash and Uber Eats. The initiative reflects Walmart’s historic strategy of adopting and adapting concepts from other entrepreneurs, a philosophy reiterated by CEO John Furner during a recent visit to the company’s headquarters.
Over the decades, Walmart has ventured beyond discount retail into home-improvement centers, pharmacy services, auto-care locations, warehouse clubs, supercenter grocery formats, specialty-brand acquisitions, and an in-house advertising business. Each of these experiments has either grown into a core segment or been discontinued, illustrating a pattern of trial, learning and scaling. The Dunkin' partnership marks the latest effort to leverage Walmart’s logistics network for fast delivery of food items, adding to its existing capabilities in merchandise, grocery and prescription delivery.
Why it matters
Walmart’s entry into restaurant delivery could reshape competition and pricing in the U.S. food-delivery market.
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