As the world’s leading omnichannel retailer, we’re bringing all the pieces together to be more than a marketplace. We’re looking across our stores and eCommerce channels to create great experiences for customers and more opportunities for Walmart Marketplace sellers to reach them.
Supercenters are one of our greatest superpowers. With 90% of the U.S. population living within 10 miles of a Walmart store, the combination of our physical locations and our eCommerce channels offers customers unmatched convenience and sellers more ways to grow with us.
Today we’re accelerating both by enabling customers to order eligible tires from Walmart Sellers and have them shipped to a local Walmart store for easy installation at our Auto Care Centers.
This initiative expands Walmart’s total installation-eligible tire assortment across stores and online. With today’s announcement, Walmart Sellers have added 12,000 unique items, including specialty tires, to provide nearly 40,000 Marketplace offers that are installation eligible at 2,300 Auto Care Centers around the country.
We know that buying tires is an important decision, and the right fit and quality are essential. Stores often have limited space and may not have the exact tire you want in stock. Ordering tires online from other retailers usually involves having the tires shipped to your home. And you probably have to take them somewhere else to be installed. It can be a lot to coordinate. Until now.
We have thousands of Walmart Auto Care Centers at our Supercenters. Our talented, trained associates do a lot of tire installations and rotations—millions of them last year alone—and we’ve proudly been named a Top-Rated Service Center by CARFAX each of the last three years.
Shopping, scheduling and returns convenience
Here’s how it works: Easily search the expanded selection and have the tires shipped to a Walmart Auto Care Center for installation, scheduling time for installation, all within the Walmart app or on Walmart.com.
Tires eligible for installation are clearly tagged “Available for Installation” while the online experience also allows you to check if the tires are appropriate for your vehicle. Expert tire installation starts at just $18 per tire.
The seamless integration prioritizes convenience by also allowing for easy returns of tires and amends for appointments at any of Walmart’s Auto Care Centers nationwide.
Making auto care easy
The expanded tire selection complements Walmart’s existing auto services that include accessories and battery services, while giving sellers more access to Walmart’s omnichannel customer base.
Keeping track of your car’s maintenance details is easy with Walmart’s Virtual Garage, a single portal where customers can store information on their vehicles. Launched last year, customers can schedule an oil change or tire installation right in the app–keeping a digital record that makes future maintenance easy. Virtual Garage also makes key information readily available–like incremental vehicle identifiers, service, invoice history, warranties and tire details.
Walmart+ members benefit from free road hazard warranty and flat tire repair at Walmart Auto Care Centers.
Our operators, merchants, Marketplace team and many others helped make today’s news possible. We are committed to our customers and to helping businesses of all sizes succeed on Walmart Marketplace.
If you’re interested in becoming a Walmart seller in our growing automotive category, fill out this form to let us know.
