Walmart is joining other retailers in offering special deals during a shopping event next week. They’re also offering new Walmart+ membership at 50% discount:
- Get first year of Walmart+ membership for $49 (affiliate link). After the first year it will auto-renew at $98.
- Some have an AmEx Offer for $49 back on a $98 Walmart+ membership purchase. These offers don’t stack, but it’s another way to get discounted Walmart+ membership.
- Many readers get Walmart+ membership free with the AmEx Platinum card.
Only available for new members 🙁
I’ve chatted with them in the past when they’ve had these deals and they’ve given me the discounted price.
Walmart has begun installing their own EV fast chargers which will be cheaper for Walmart+ account holders. They piloted them in Bentonville and Dallas earlier in 2025. They are now starting the national rollout.
These are not the Electrify America chargers that have been in many Walmart parking lots for years.
Walmart delivery infrastructure just seems less reliable than Amazon. With Amazon I’m locked in to their system, I trust the delivery estimates because they almost always get it right. Walmart…idk maybe I just need to use it more but delivery feels not as smooth.
Oh I almost forgot a new and even bigger issue I found recently. Seems you can’t cancel a Walmart order, especially if it’s sold and shipped by Walmart. Recently I ordered a couple items. Walmart charged my card immediately, which Amazon doesn’t do. Fine whatever, it’s still just pending anyway. Like ten minutes later I realized I had used the wrong credit card so I wanted to cancel and reorder. Nope. Walmart says I’ll just have to return the item or refuse delivery. How does that make sense, within ten minutes of ordering??? There’s no way Walmart can say they already shipped the items, and yet that’s what they claim to deny canceling.
Amazon won’t even charge your card within the first hour or so, in case you ordered by mistake. And when they do it’s only after item ships. They just seem like a more modern company.
The nice thing about Walmart where I live is that if a local store carries the item then they just have somebody from the local store drop off the item at my place either the same day or next day. I know Amazon does same day/next day for some areas, but not everywhere. So some people who live near Walmart but not near a big Amazon distribution center may find that they get their stuff sooner.
Also, Amazon sells a whole lot of garbage, basically turning into Temu. With Walmart it is a lot easier to shop since the search results in the app are a lot easier to navigate as if you are shopping in Walmart store.
In either case, I do not find Walmart+ or Prime particularly worthwhile unless you do a lot of small orders. It is pointless to pay $100+ or even $50 per year since both Amazon and Walmart offer free shipping with $35+ orders. You are basically just paying monthly shipping fees for small orders when you subscribe to these places.
It’s funny you mention the search results… For me it’s the opposite. I love searching on Amazon, and I dislike searching on the Walmart website. To me it’s very messy, whereas with Amazon I know exactly how to navigate it to pinpoint the result I want or to go thru a products rabbit hole and end up with a great deal.
It probably just depends on where you spend the most time. The more you use one the more you get accustomed to it and the less user-friendly the other seems.
As for quality of products, I think it’s a wash as far as third party sellers. You can find the same items and sellers in both. I did notice recently one seller had their Amazon price 25% higher than their Walmart price. I still bought it on Amazon because it was something I needed fast and I didn’t trust the Walmart order to arrive on time.
When it comes to store brand products, those owned by Amazon and Walmart directly, I think Amazon has better quality than Walmart.
I have not really noticed any difference from Walmart and Amazon brands, in fact they are probably mostly done by the same people just with different labels.
I agree that both sites are becoming more clunky due to third-party sellers. However, with Walmart you have the option to filter search results by “Available in store” which can definitely help narrow down shopping to just in store items versus Amazon where most of the time top results are third-party sellers and unknown brands.
Also, the more you use the app/site the more it probably tailors to your usage since they customize results based on your usage of the app. So if you use Amazon a lot more than Walmart it makes sense that their algorithm is probably tailoring your experience more to what it thinks you want.
My comment is more about just getting regular shopping done versus going to the store. Amazon is better for random junk, but Walmart+ is probably better for saving you a trip to the actual store.
Ordering systems are often a one way process. Order > Send order to fulfillment for processing. It’s inefficient to have someone running around the warehouse yelling ” hey, don’t pull random D’s order he used the wrong credit card!” Accept the process.
I said it was barely ten minutes later. It’s literally impossible for them to have shipped it out, which is what they claim. Because if it hasn’t shipped, it should be cancelable.
Btw after running into this issue I googled it and found plenty other people who experienced the same problem with canceling.
This is not me but very similar experience:
https://www.reddit.com/r/walmart/comments/fsqohq/wow_you_really_cant_cancel_orders_at_walmart_can/
Here’s another example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/walmart/comments/1ad5cy1/what_the_hell_is_up_with_trying_to_cancel_a_newly/
And another, although this one managed to get it resolved after multiple calls (in my case it wasn’t worth dealing with CS so I didn’t call, just let the order ship):
https://www.reddit.com/r/walmart/comments/a5y4ok/placed_an_order_this_morning_requested/
Im a target slut, target > walmart.
Target has so many exclusions to their free shipping that it is the most useless of services. Walmart is nice since if you have a Walmart nearby a lot of stores have delivery system setup that they do not even ship items, they just have somebody from the store drop off the item the same or next day. Target seems to mostly ship items from centralized distribution centers. One time they shipped an item to me from a local store, but they literally shipped it through UPS/Fedex even though the store is <5 miles away.
Not to mention most stuff at Walmart is 10-30% cheaper than Target. Target you basically have to mess around with Target Circle deals to try and match Walmart pricing.
Its very worth the $49 bucks plus tacking on the InHome addition to bring it under a hundo a year. Get anything delivered with no tips and I never have to venture into a Walmart. WINNING
Dear grandpa, no one says WINNING any more because it’s not 2011. Enjoy your Werther’s Originals from Walmart.
Dear old people hater, time marches on for each of us, and one day you will have the same said to you!
Not sure if it’s worth it for me anymore:
10cents gas off – i use Costco instead.
Free delivery – Amazon prime (cheaper).
Scan and go is 3x on CSP – not bad but i shop at Kroger more these days (many 10% off at kroger monthly).
Paramount+ for UCL is probably the most valuable thing but they often offer Free Month regularly.
Hmmm 🤔
Not that I’m defending Walmart, but in what way is $49 a year cheaper than Amazon Prime for the grocery delivery piece?!?
In the way that Amazon Prime doesn’t just offer grocery delivery.
Neither does WM? 🤔
Last time I checked, which was a long time ago, WM sells most of the same junk Amazon does. That said, I don’t support either…well, I try not to anyway.
If it came down to strictly using it for (free) grocery delivery, it seems WM is the easy winner at only $49 a year.
Forgot to list the details but i meant some random stuff on amazon vs Walmart (eg: energy drinks, toilet paper, shampoo, etc). Not about groceries.
Doesn’t this stupid membership require you to pay tips for delivery?
Kind of pointless since we aren’t held hostage to tip Amazon drivers.
This tipping culture is getting out of control.
No it doesnt
No, tips may not be required, but these Walmart delivery drivers expect tips and they know where you live, so….
Grocery delivery on Amazon expects tips as well.