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Only Amazon Prime subscribers can use the curbside pickup service at participating Whole Foods locations, which there are currently only two of.
- $4 recently launched a curbside pickup service at two $4 locations.
- $4 has been operating a similar service since piloting a grocery pickup program in 2013.
- I went to Whole Foods to test Amazon's curbside pickup service against Walmart's - and there was a clear winner.
Amazon is not slowing down in its mission to venture into the grocery industry if its new curbside pickup service is any indication.
The $4 that it was launching a curbside pickup feature at two Whole Foods locations in Sacramento, California, and Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Available on the company's Prime Now platform, $4, the service allows Prime subscribers to create a grocery list for a Whole Foods employee to assemble, choose a pick-up time, and drive to the store, where their orders can be loaded into their cars.
Walmart has been operating a similar service since $4.
Curious as to how the two stack up against each other, I ventured to the Sacramento area to test both services - and I'm definitely partial to one of them. This is what I found: