Walmart are enabling customers to order eligible tyres from Walmart Auto Sellers and have them shipped to a local Walmart store for easy installation at Walmart’s Auto Care Centers.
This initiative expands Walmart’s total installation-eligible tire assortment across stores and online. With today’s announcement, Walmart Auto Sellers have added 12,000 unique items, including specialty tyres, to provide nearly 40,000 Marketplace offers that are installation eligible at 2,300 Auto Care Centers around the country.
Supercenters are one of Walmart’s greatest superpowers. With 90% of the U.S. population living within 10 miles of a Walmart store, the combination of their physical locations and ecommerce channels offers customers unmatched convenience and sellers more ways to grow with the marketplace.
Walmart aren’t the first to offer auto fitting services – we’ve seen eBay partner with third parties to offer similar fitting services in the UK. The big difference is that Walmart can offer fitting at their own trusted Auto Care Centers which is a massive tick in the box for Walmart customers and makes this a compelling proposition for auto sellers.
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.
– Walmart
