5 Ways Walmart Business Leverages Convenience for Business Growth

Avoid hassle and embrace efficiency

If you’ve ever ordered takeout because you came home from work too tired to cook, you know the importance of convenience. But convenience doesn’t just make life a little easier. It also has hidden benefits that can make your business more effective and efficient.

When you trim hassle from your workflows, you can use the time you save to grow your skillset and better position your business for long-term success. Here’s how Walmart Business can help.

How hassle hurts your business

Hassle comes in three distinct forms: repetitive work, unintuitive work and convoluted work.

First, repetition. Nobody likes doing the same thing over and over, and given a thousand chances to make a small mistake, there’s a good chance we’ll do it—no matter how careful we are.

Unintuitive or unfamiliar tasks may be hard to understand or take a long time to master. That forces you to work slowly, and can push you into mistakes you need to fix downstream.

Finally, there’s convoluted work. These tasks may be easy, but the process of completing them has so many steps that they still eat up a disproportionate amount of time.

The virtues of convenience

Each step toward reducing hassle can feed the next. For example, finding ways to eliminate repetitive tasks leaves more time for engaging and productive work. That can raise your work satisfaction and give you time to think about the bigger business picture.

When you do, you may realize that another member of your team is better suited to a task that you were struggling with. That helps you lean on your team’s diverse strengths and optimize workloads company-wide.

Finally, you can spend time thinking about creative solutions to your convoluted processes. That can lead to more and more efficiency over time.

How Walmart Business can help

1. Shop smart and ship free

Shopping in a store has plenty of advantages, but sometimes you just don’t have time to drive there, browse the aisles, compare the options, check out and drive back to the office.

On the other hand, shopping online brings its own challenges. You often have to sift through tons of irrelevant products before you find what you’re looking for.

Walmart Business aims to cut out both of these inefficiencies through smart curation. Skip straight to the page for your industry and you’ll find the most relevant products for your business that much faster. That means you can get back to work faster, too.

Plus, with a Walmart Business+ membership, you can get your item shipped straight to your office for free.¹ If you’re under a severe time crunch, pick it up in-store for up to same-day fulfillment.²

2. Leave it to the experts

If putting together furniture or setting up WiFi networks aren’t your forté, Walmart Business+ has you covered.

If you’ve got a new desk coming in, our partnership with Angi can help you put it together. Angi experts can also return to perform maintenance, saving you time and effort.

On the tech side, we partner with True Network Solutions to set up and maintain key pieces of tech. Whether it’s a router, a computer or a smart device, Tech Services can get it running at optimal efficiency.

Finally, if something goes wrong, protection plans offered through Allstate can keep you covered. That can help you keep working when something goes wrong—not to mention save some time and money.

3. Stay supplied

Whether it’s tissues for the office or toner for your printer, there are some supplies you’ll find yourself buying over and over again. The smaller the batch you buy, the more often you’ll have to do it—that just leads to spending more time and money than you need.

With Walmart Business, you can switch to ordering these supplies in bulk. Not only does that help you keep a healthy stockpile, but it also saves you time by cutting out individual purchases. Plus, by buying in large quantities, you can achieve economies of scale and save money on a per-unit basis.

You can stretch that convenience even further by creating subscriptions³ for your most-used items. That way, you can set an order to be placed automatically before you run out. That’s especially helpful if you haven’t got the space to store a bulk order of something like cleaning spray.

4. Pry open bottlenecks

When only one person has access to a business-critical account, it can create bottlenecks around productivity. 

Walmart Business solves this problem by allowing up to five users access to a single Walmart Business account. That way, when an approved employee knows they need something, they’re empowered to order it themselves.

That saves the account owner time and cuts down on lost productivity.

5. Learn from other leaders

There are always more ways to cut hassle out of your business and streamline operations. The Walmart Business Content Hub is full of actionable tips you can implement at your company to do just that.

Getting a handle on your business hassles is just one part of how Walmart Business+ can help you. It also unlocks plenty of ways to save money. From low prices on a huge range of products to 2% of spending coming back as Walmart Business rewards, you can save up to $500 a year.⁴

Click here to start saving today with Walmart Business or here to learn about what Walmart Business+ can do for your business.

¹Excludes most Marketplace items, freight and certain location surcharges.

²Subject to availability on eligible items.

³Shipping, delivery and minimum order fees may apply. Eligible items only. Terms apply.

⁴Savings based on 1 free $35+ delivery order vs. $9.95 fee and 1 free shipping order under $35 vs. $6.99 fee biweekly, plus 2% Walmart Business rewards on monthly order >$250 (average value of $400).