Digital Commerce 360 September 2, 2019
Mark Brohan

For the first time, Walmart is rolling out a digital healthcare site—WalmartHealth.com—that gives consumers web tools to book appointments with physicians and other services.

The world’s biggest chain retailer apparently isn’t ready to cede digital healthcare to the globe’s biggest online retailer—Amazon.com—and any other big drugstore chains just yet.

Walmart Inc., which operates more than 11,200 stores in 27 countries and ecommerce sites in 10 countries, is slowly expanding its rollout of more healthcare walk-in clinics in a small number of stores.

But for the first time, Walmart, which has 4,756 stores in the U.S. is adding on a digital healthcare site—WalmartHealth.com—that gives consumers web tools to book medical appointments to see a physician, a dentist, a mental...

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