Wal-Mart will deliver products home to Uber

The Wal-Mart supermarket network in test mode will launch home delivery using Uber and Lyft taxi services, AP reports .

The pilot project over the next weeks in Denver and Phoenix. Clients will be able to order goods online, choose delivery time, ask the taxi driver to pick up the order from the supermarket and deliver it. The service will cost from $ 7 to $ 10.

As AP recalls, in March, Wal-Mart launched a similar project in Miami, but did not attract taxi services to work.

Reuters notes that the supermarket chain in this way will be able to compete with the online retailer Amazon, which delivers products in California, Seattle, New York, Philadelphia.

In the USA, the volume of the online food supply market is $ 10.9 billion, the agency adds. It is expected that it will grow until 2019 by 9.6% annually.

In 2015, Amazon selected the title of the most expensive in the world of the retail network from Wal-Mart. The capitalization of the online retailer in the middle of last year amounted to $ 265 billion against $ 234 billion from the supermarket network.