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>Hasn't Walmart been inching into this space for a while?

Yup. An aircraft carrier cannot turn on a dime but when it finally comes around it's bad news for anyone in its way.

Walmart, yes. But at least in Europe (France and Germany at least), the last mile is still outsourced to the customer. Giving all the smaller delivery services in every city retailers always had the possibility to offer these services. That they didn't allowed Amazon to become as big and successful. Still, Amazon executed almost perfect on that opportunity.

Since I always wondered how it would look like if that window closes I am happy that I might get a first glimpse.

Yeah they bought Jet for about three billion dollars cash in 2016, for their delivery network. See point two on https://blog.walmart.com/business/20160919/five-big-reasons-...

Ya I order from Walmart online all the time for dry food, for years now. Their delivery wasn't next day, but usually a few days which 99/100 times for me is more than fine.