Walmart’s delivery service wants to put eggs right in your fridge

Walmart wants access to your refrigerator.

The discount giant, battling Amazon in the grocery home-delivery game, is testing a program that won’t just get your milk and eggs and non-perishables to your home — but get them placed in your kitchen and even into the refrigerator.

The Bentonville, Ark., chain is working with August Home, a maker of smart land smart home accessories, like video cameras, on the cutting-edge idea.

The delivery man, using a one-time code, will unlock the door of customers who own the proper August Home equipment and place all perishables into the refrigerator — the remaining groceries will be placed in a box near the door.

Customers will get notified of the delivery and can watch the entire process remotely via a in-house camera accessed with the August Home app, according to a blog post from Sloan Eddleston, Walmart’s VP of e-Commerce Strategy and Business Operations.

In the test program, being run in Silicon Valley, just customers of August Home can participate.

The home-delivery business is among the hottest precincts in retailing.

Walmart said in June said it was testing using its own store employees to deliver packages ordered online.

Target said in May it was testing next-day delivery to compete with Amazon’s Prime service.