You know the Walmart app orders groceries. So does everyone.

What it also does is guide you through the store, split your payment, and refill your prescriptions while you’re picking out bananas.

Here’s the full tour of Walmart’s app features that nobody tells North Carolinians about.

Turn-by-Turn Directions

Walmart’s app can walk you straight to the shelf you need.

Search for any item while you’re in the store, and the app shows its availability, the aisle, and directions to its location.

No more flagging down an employee to find the WD-40.

It works at any Walmart, not just your home store. Traveling and stuck in an unfamiliar Supercenter the size of an airport terminal?

The app knows exactly where the Great Value coffee lives.

The days of wandering the back wall on a hunch are over. The map was in your pocket the whole time.

Lists That Sort Themselves by Aisle

Build a shopping list in Walmart’s app, tap once, and it reorders itself by aisle.

Your scattered list of milk, batteries, shampoo, and birthday cards becomes a route.

Start at aisle one, end at the registers, no backtracking past the Mainstays towels for the third time.

For anyone who shops with a paper list and a prayer, this is the upgrade.

It works on wish lists, too, which makes gift runs during the holidays a straight line instead of a hunt.

A Deals Feed for the Store You’re Standing In

Walmart’s app can show a running list of deals at your current store. Not national promotions.

Your store, today.

Open it on the way in, before you grab a cart, and you’ll know about the markdowns and rollbacks before you pass them.

It pairs well with the barcode scanner, which pulls up the app price on anything you’re holding.

Shoppers who walk in blind often pay shelf price. Shoppers who check the feed first walk the same aisles with a head start.

Sparky, the Assistant in the Search Bar

There’s an AI helper living in Walmart’s app called Sparky, and it does more than answer your questions.

Ask it for the best birthday gift for a 2-year-old or a decent laptop for a college student, and it suggests options with reasons.

It also boils down hundreds of customer reviews into a short summary, so you skip the scroll.

The party trick is planning.

Tell Sparky the occasion, a retirement party, a baby shower, a Super Bowl spread, and it builds your whole shopping list, decorations to snacks, ready to add to your cart in a tap.

It keeps learning new skills. So, poke at it now and then.

The button’s right there.

Products That Read Themselves to You

Squinting at tiny review text in a Walmart aisle gets old fast. The app now turns product details and reviews into short audio clips.

Tap, listen, decide.

It works like having a friend skim the reviews and give you the highlights while you keep pushing the cart.

The feature covers more than a thousand beauty products so far, with more on the way.

For anyone whose reading glasses are perpetually in the other purse, this one earns its keep.

Walmart Pay That Splits the Bill for You

Walmart Pay turns your phone into your wallet at checkout, and it picked up a smart new habit.

Load your cards and gift cards into the app, and when you tap Pay, it recommends how to split the total across them to make the most of your balances.

That half-used gift card from last Christmas finally gets emptied.

The right card gets the big charge.

One QR scan at the register and the whole payment happens, and your receipt is saved in the app automatically.

No more glove compartment full of paper.

A Full Pharmacy in Your Pocket

The pharmacy section of Walmart’s app does nearly everything the counter does, minus the line.

Refill prescriptions, transfer them from another pharmacy, manage your whole family’s medications, and get notified when everything’s ready for one pickup.

You can schedule vaccinations through it, too, including flu shots.

For households juggling multiple prescriptions, this turns a weekly errand into a notification.

Set the refills once and the app does the remembering. One less thing will be competing for space on your fridge calendar.

Scan & Go, the Line Skipper

Walmart+ members unlock the app’s biggest flex: Scanning items with your phone as you shop.

Scan each item as it goes in the cart, watch the running total, and check out contact-free without unloading a thing at a register.

The running total is the sleeper benefit.

No more checkout surprise, because the math happens in real time, in your hand. Budget shoppers swear by it.

It does require the Walmart+ membership, so it’s not free. But for big weekly hauls, the time saved adds up fast.

Gas Discounts at the Pump

Your savings can start before you ever find a parking spot.

Walmart+ members get up to 10 cents off every gallon at more than 13,000 stations nationwide, including Exxon and Mobil locations, not just Walmart’s own pumps.