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Walmart and Jet are joining forces with BuzzFeed in their quest for millennial shoppers (WMT)

Walmart is partnering with BuzzFeed's Tasty app to help sell its kitchen tools, appliances, and food to the recipe hub's tens of millions of followers.

  • The retailer will start selling its kitchen tools, appliances, and eventually food through links in Tasty's recipe videos.
  • This will open Walmart to a vast market of potential new customers. Tasty has nearly 91 million Facebook followers, and its recipe videos have accumulated more than 65 billion views.
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Walmart has struck a deal with BuzzFeed's Tasty app to help the retailer sell its kitchen tools, appliances, and groceries to the viral recipe hub's tens of millions of followers.

Starting Thursday, Tasty's step-by-step recipe videos will contain links to buy products featured in the videos — such as pots and pans, bakeware, and other kitchen tools — directly on Walmart.com and Jet.com, which is owned by Walmart.

In the coming months, links to purchase recipe ingredients on both sites will also be added to the videos.

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This will open Walmart to a vast market of potentially new customers, and it could help grow its online grocery business once links to purchase food are added to the app's videos. Tasty is a massive social media franchise with nearly 91 million Facebook followers, and its highly shareable recipe videos have accumulated more than 65 billion views.

"Consumers today are shopping very differently," Sumaiya Balbale, Walmart's vice president of e-commerce, mobile, and digital marketing, told Business Insider in an interview. "Content and commerce are coming together in more seamless and impactful ways."

Balbale said Walmart and Tasty have been in talks about the partnership for months. She said Walmart was inspired by how Tasty is

Walmart is hoping the partnership will help the brand reach tech-savvy millennials "in a deeper way," while also broadening Jet.com's exposure beyond the young, urban shoppers it attracts, Balbale said.

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