Look inside the new, high-tech Lake Nona Walmart Supercenter

Jan 25, 2017, 11:33am EST Updated Jan 26, 2017, 10:28am EST

Veronica BrezinaStaff WriterOrlando Business Journal

Attention, Walmart shoppers: The new 190,000-square-foot Lake Nona Walmart Supercenter now is open, featuring futuristic technology and a modern layout to give customers an enhanced experience.

Customers at the store — part of the $100 million Lake Nona Landing shopping center on Narcoossee Road near State Road 417 — will be able to avoid long lines with apps, have items delivered to their car for free and use technology that can detect what you want to see.  

Here are more details on the new technologies:

• Mobile Scan & Go: Customers can scan items with the Walmart Mobile Scan & Go app on their phone while shopping in the store and pay for those items with their phone. This service is meant to eliminate lines. The Lake Nona Walmart is the second store in the U.S. to use the app.
• Pick-up service: Now customers don’t ever have to leave their car to go shopping. Shoppers can have items delivered straight from the store to their car, whether it be prescriptions, groceries or any other merchandise. The customers will have to go to the side of the building in Walmart’s drive-thru and use a kiosk to put in their information.
• High-tech customer table: The Lake Nona Walmart Supercenter is calling this new high-tech experience the “Interactive Product Education Table.” When a customer swipes their hand over the table, which features advertisements for products, information for that product will pop up. How does the table know what someone selected without touching anything? There are digital live projectors that can sense movement, detecting the pixels selected with a swipe of a hand.

The Lake Nona store also has a clean appearance with clerestory windows that give the store more natural light, along with combined departments to create a better flow and clear signage.

Further, instead of having the usual restaurants the retail supercenter typically has, the Lake Nona location searched for a fresh restaurant to bring to the table. Miami-based, organic restaurant Grown will open in mid-February at the front of the store. The menu options include gluten-free blueberry pancakes, cold-pressed juices, create-your-own wraps, salads and more.