Walmart's latest strategy to get your stuff to you faster

A Walmart employee waits for the Alphabot system to expel carts filled with customers' online orders at a Walmart micro-fulfillment center in Salem, MA on Jan. 8, 2020.

Walmart plans to build automated mini-warehouses in dozens of its stores to speed up customers' online delivery and curbside pickup orders in a race against Amazon.

Walmart announced Wednesday that it will add dozens of 20,000 square-foot to 30,000 square-foot automated fulfillment centers in the coming years, either in the backrooms of its stores or next to them.

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