> No person with a viable alternative desires to visit a physical Walmart store. It takes time, requires overcoming a variety of frustrations like traffic, parking, bewildering store layouts, and then you never know if the item you want will actually be present at the location. Compare clicking a button and having the item delivered to your door.
You likely haven't been to too many Walmarts, especially in rural areas without a real Main Street / town square. People congregate there and eat at the food court or just hang out. Being able to get an item immediately instead of waiting two days is convenient. Most people don't buy a specialty item, they buy conventional merchandise that is more or less guaranteed to be in stock. Many communities have Walmart as their exclusive grocery store.
The complaint about traffic and parking (Walmarts have ample parking in all but the more urban locations!) shows that your perspective is that of a large city with ample public transit, not the more representative American locale. There's no Walmart in Manhattan, but there are two just over the bridge in Jersey. Most Americans live in a semi-urban, suburban, or rural place.
You likely haven't been to too many Walmarts, especially in rural areas without a real Main Street / town square. People congregate there and eat at the food court or just hang out. Being able to get an item immediately instead of waiting two days is convenient. Most people don't buy a specialty item, they buy conventional merchandise that is more or less guaranteed to be in stock. Many communities have Walmart as their exclusive grocery store.
The complaint about traffic and parking (Walmarts have ample parking in all but the more urban locations!) shows that your perspective is that of a large city with ample public transit, not the more representative American locale. There's no Walmart in Manhattan, but there are two just over the bridge in Jersey. Most Americans live in a semi-urban, suburban, or rural place.