Target Leverages Shipt to Scale Next-Day Delivery

Shipt is aiding Target’s expansion of its next-day delivery offering, Shipt said in a Friday (April 10) press release.

“Target Last Mile Delivery Direct has allowed Shipt to move the starting line closer to the guest, effectively replacing high-cost long-haul shipping with efficient, local deliveries,” the company said in the release while sharing a link to a report by Supply Chain Dive.

In that report, Kamau Witherspoon, CEO at Shipt, and Daryl Glass, senior vice president of fulfillment and last mile at Target, described how the companies are serving Target customers.

Target Last Mile Delivery Direct is a shipping method in which drivers from Shipt, which is a subsidiary of Target, take next-day deliveries from the retailer’s stores to customers, according to the report.

This shipping method was introduced in six stores in two markets in 2025 and will be expanded to 100 stores in 50 markets by the end of this year, the report said, citing Witherspoon.

This method eliminates some traditional logistical bottlenecks and lowers costs of delivery, per the report.

Witherspoon said in a post on LinkedIn that Shipt’s position in the Target ecosystem allows it to test new initiatives and bring them to market.

“Through our network of shoppers and drivers, who are fulfilling and delivering orders within their same community, we’ve effectively been able to bring the starting line closer to the guest, operate faster, and at a lower cost,” Witherspoon said in his post.

In a fact sheet about next-day delivery that was updated March 17, Target said that as this offering is expanded to 50 metro areas, 60% of the U.S. population will have access to it.

The offering of next-day delivery of online orders joins Target’s other fulfillment options that include same-day services and two-day shipping.

“Most items eligible for shipping at Target are eligible for next-day delivery,” the company said in the fact sheet. “That includes hundreds of thousands of items — 85% of what we sell in Target stores.”

It was reported in December that Target aims to offer customers several ways to get their orders, including same-day delivery, drive-up, ship-to-home brown box and in-store shopping.