Walmart is one of the world’s biggest supermarkets, and Walmart+, or Walmart Plus, is its subscription service, offering free same- and next-day delivery on a range of products, plus exclusive bargains for subscribers. It also offers special membership prices on fuel with up to 10 cents off each gallon at over 14,000 stations and free grocery deliveries. 

Over the debut Walmart+ Weekend, “Up to 40% off top tech”. That sounds pretty good to us. Other perks include mobile scan and go via your phone to check out at actual Walmart stores, plus exclusive or early access deals during other sales events, for example, during Black Friday.

A Walmart+ subscription costs either $12.95 a month or $98 for the year. That actually makes it cheaper than Amazon Prime. But best of all, like Amazon’s subscription service, Walmart+ has a free trial (opens in new tab), which means you can sign up ahead of Walmart Plus Weekend to take advantage of the deals during the event and then cancel if you decide you don’t like or won’t continue to use the benefits. That said, those who sign up to Walmart+ over Walmart+ weekend and become paid members will get a $20 promo code for use against their next purchase.

Walmart+ Weekend is a new announcement from the retailer that seems to be designed very much in the mould of Amazon Prime Day. Walmart+ members are promised exclusive access to special member-only deals. 

Although it’s called ‘Walmart Plus Weekend’, it actually lasts for four days, with the inaugural Walmart+ Weekend 2022 taking place from Thursday until Sunday. The event starts at 12pm PT / 3pm ET on Thursday 2 June and deals end at 4pm PT / 7pm ET on Sunday June 5.

Since Walmart+ Weekend 2022 is the first such event, we don’t have any history to go by to predict exactly what kind of deals we’ll see over the four-day sale event, but we’ve been promised ‘Up to 40% off top tech, toys, & more’. 

That certainly sounds intriguing, and going by what we’ve seen Walmart offer discounts on in the past, for example during Black Friday or even on Amazon Prime Day, we wouldn’t be surprised if we see some big deals on TVs, particularly Hisense 4K models (in fact, we’ve already found some – see below). We might get some deals on laptops and tablets too.

We will continue to update this when Walmart Plus launches, hopefully in July 2020, but a quick look at the stats will certainly give you an idea of which online subscription service will be the more dominant one initailly. 

According to a CNBC report, as of May 2020, Amazon was accounting for 40% of all US gross merchandise volume online. What’s more, with lockdown, demand was so high that Amazon had to reduce what it delivered to essential items only for a period of time, plus hire thousands of new delivery workers. Amazon, it’s fair to say, is in rude health in 2020. 

However, Walmart is no slouch, announcing that it brought in around $524 billion in yearly revenue (opens in new tab). That means that the company has the muscle to make its Plus scheme a real competitor to Prime. 

Also, Walmart Plus will unlikely go for the exact same customers that know and trust Amazon Prime. As Walmart specialises in groceries, there will be at least one essential difference between the two subscription services at point of launch, and there are other ways Walmart can distinguish Walmart Plus from Prime, concentrating on specific product areas rather than offering pretty much everything like Amazon does. Groceries, as mentioned, but also gas, early access to Walmart-specific sales and promotions, and quick checkouts in physical Walmart stores are some obvious examples.