Walmart has acquired startup Parcel to deliver same-day in New York City

The giant retailer company over  took Parcel, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Company that handles scheduled and same-day delivery services in New York for online retailers like Bonobos and meal-kit companies like Chef’ d and Martha Stewart’s Martha & Marley Spoon.

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Parcel will continue to serve those clients. But Walmart will also utilize the startup’s technology and network of delivery employees to ramp up its own same-day delivery offerings for both Jet.com and Walmart.com in New York City.

Parcel sends order updates to its merchant clients and their customers in real time via text messages. The startup has also compiled a database of every New York City building it has delivered. Including photos and detailed information on service entrances.

“New York City is a really unique and complicated market, and that mastery is really rare,” Parcel founder and CEO Jesse Kaplan said in an interview.

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The deal comes as more shoppers expect to have the option for same-day delivery when placing online orders. Especially when buying consumable products that get everyday use. Not only does Amazon offer Prime members free two-hour delivery on a limited assortment of goods. It also lets these customers get same-day delivery for free on a catalog of more than a million products.

Walmart and Parcel both declined to reveal the acquisition price. Parcel founded in 2013, had raised just $2 million from investors. And had pivoted from a consumer-facing startup to a business-to-business startup about two years ago.

Along with Kaplan, Parcel’s other six full-time employees will also join Walmart. The company’s 45-to-50 part-time employees, who sort and deliver orders, will also move over in the deal.

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In the year since it acquired Jet.com for $3 billion. Walmart has also purchased a host online retailers, including Bonobos, ModCloth and Moosejaw under the direction of e-commerce head Marc Lore.