---
title: "Walmart Will Now Deliver Food Straight to Your Fridge"
description: "Walmart just announced a new service for people who don't want to — or aren't able to — come to the door to pick up their groceries."
date: "2019-06-07"
modified: "2019-06-07"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/walmart-inhome-delivery-fridge"
categories:
  - "Food"
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "delivery"
  - "food delivery"
  - "the digest"
  - "walmart"
---

# Walmart Will Now Deliver Food Straight to Your Fridge

![As part of the InHome Delivery service, Amazon employees will be able to enter your abode, donning a camera, and deliver groceries directly to your fridge.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/walmart-inhome-delivery-fridge.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Walmart/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## A Frigid Welcome

Walmart just announced a new service for people who don't want to — or aren't able to — come to the door to pick up their groceries.

As part of the InHome Delivery service, Walmart employees will be able to enter your home, don a internet-connected camera, and deliver groceries directly to your nasty fridge.

https://twitter.com/WalmartInc/status/1136845904550383616

The news comes after Amazon launched a service in 2017 called [Amazon Key](<https://twitter.com/futurism/status/924068112407912449>), which lets its delivery people inside your house to make sure your package isn't snatched up by ["porch pirates."](<https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/us/porch-pirates-packages-trnd/index.html>)

## Never at Home

Here's how it works. Customers place an order through their phones, a Walmart associate will do the shopping, a delivery associate will "use smart entry technology and a proprietary, wearable camera" to get into your home, and "through an extensive training program" will know how to locate your fridge.

To get inside, Walmart customers will have a smart device that allows for one-time access remotely. Customers will also be able to review the footage taken by the associates body camera to make sure nothing went awry.

The service will come to three U.S. cities first in the fall: Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Vero Beach in Florida.

**READ MORE:** [Walmart will stock your fridge with groceries while you're not home](<https://www.cnet.com/news/walmart-will-stock-your-fridge-with-groceries-while-youre-not-home/>) \[*CNET*\]

**More on delivery services:** *[Uber Is Preparing to Launch a Netflix-Like Food Delivery Service](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/uber-eats-pass-food-delivery>)*

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

### Author social links  
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