Plans call for 41,700 square feet of inventory space, with a canopied pickup bay under which customers will park in one of 24 designated spaces while their groceries are loaded into their cars. 

Walmart predicts that the site will process about 180 pickups per hour, or 1,960 daily. Home deliveries will also be made from the facility, at a projected rate of about 30 per day. Roughly 40 employees will run the unit, the company says.

For Walmart, the store gives customers “yet another location close to where they live or close to where they work, where they can go online, order their groceries and pick [them] up at this location,” said spokeswoman Ann Hatfield, speaking to the Chicago Tribune. "They don’t have to get out of their car."

For the city of Lincolnwood, the facility fills a vacant retail space and provides sales-tax revenue, according to Doug Hammel, the city's community development manager. “It’s a grocery store — it just operates in a more contemporary way," Hammel told the newspaper. "It appears to be a compatible use and a way to occupy a long-vacant space.”