Walmart Canada is teaming up with Vancouver based online grocery company Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery (SPUD) to bring what it says will be sustainable food delivery to Vancouverites.
The corporation will launch the service this summer in partnership with SPUD’s new delivery platform ‘Food X’.
Walmart is hardly the first grocery store to offer home delivery in the Lower Mainland – Save On Foods, Thrifty Foods and even Amazon, which recently acquired Whole Foods, will ship groceries to your door.
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SPUD CEO Peter Van Stolk says in terms of reducing food waste and packaging, its partnership with WalMart will be the most environmentally friendly online grocery distribution in Canada.
“We clean out the things we use, we re-use everything, and Walmart is taking on those same practices that we utilize, to provide their customers a very sustainable means of delivering foods.”
Van Stolk says Food X is opening a new warehouse facility this summer on South Fraser way in Burnaby.
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WalMart online grocering vice president Daryl Porter said sustainability is a large part of its focus.
“We have aspirations to be zero-waste by 2025, and this falls directly in line with that. And what SPUD does, it allows us to do it at the local level, and it allows us to learn from tactics that they’ve been employing for a period of time.”
He said they don’t have a definitive date set for the service to launch, but they expect it to happen in the summer months.
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