A service that brings groceries directly to your fridge

Walmart is opening up a new technology of delivering groceries straight to customer’s fridge even when they are not at home.

Teaming up with smart lock startup ‘August Home’, Walmart tested a service in which workers use a temporary door code to deliver the groceries directly to the person’s kitchen.

Walmart Vice President Sloan Eddleston announced the test and stated, “Think about that – someone else does the shopping or you AND puts it all away. This may not be for everyone – and certainly not right away – but we want to offer customers the opportunity to participate in tests.”

“What if Walmart could help busy families like mine ensure my fridge was always well-stocked? What if we created a service that not only did my grocery shopping and brought everything to my home, but even went so far as to put it directly into my fridge?” he wrote in the blog post.

The customer first places online order on the store’s website. When the order is all set, a deliverer will bring it to the customer’s home. The people who deliver the goods could only let themselves inside the house if no one answers the smart doorbell provided by August Home and triggers a smartphone notification when someone presses it. All of the deliveries would be supervised by security cameras and the customers can also watch the process via an application. The deliverer will stock up the fridge and leave, reports CNET.

However, the testing is being conducted on a limited number of August Home customers in Silicon Valley but Walmart aims on expanding the service in the future.

A few of Walmart’s other tests include a technology through which its employees can drop off online orders on their way home from work, a massive grocery vending machine in the parking lots of few other stores, and a drive-thru store pick up, according to Mashable.