Thyme&Table brings $599 fully automatic espresso machine to Walmart

Walmart is now selling a fully automatic espresso machine from Thyme&Table for $599.96, and that price point says as much about the market as the machine itself. This is not the kind of entry you used to associate with a grocery run and a home goods aisle. It is a sign that café-style drinks, once fenced off behind premium appliance brands and specialist retailers, are moving into mass retail with a machine built to grind, brew and steam in one box.

Thyme&Table, the Walmart-exclusive brand offered by Core Home, is pitching the machine as an easier path into serious home espresso. It uses a built-in conical burr grinder, a 20-bar pressure system and one-touch brewing, with more than 50 hot and cold drink recipes that range from espressos and lattes to iced coffee and milk drinks. The brand is also leaning hard into presentation: the machine comes in Sand, Slate and Faded Rose, which makes it feel as much like a countertop design piece as a brewing appliance.

That matters because Thyme&Table is not entering the espresso category cold. Core Home said it was founded in 2009 and has grown from bamboo kitchenware into a broader housewares business with brands spanning Core Kitchen, Brooklyn Steel Co. and Manna Hydration. Thyme&Table first brought a line of premier kitchen appliances to Walmart in June 2025, then added new colors in December 2025, including for coffee machines. In February 2026, it introduced the Barista Mini Espresso Machine in Faded Rose for $139, with a 15-bar pressure system and a 52mm portafilter. The new fully automatic model is a much bigger leap in automation and price.

That leap lines up with where the category is heading. Market research has put the global fully automatic espresso machine market at US$370 million in 2024, with growth projected to $525 million by 2031. Another estimate pegs the home espresso coffee machine market at $1.5 billion in 2024, rising to $2.8 billion by 2033. In other words, the demand is there, and brands are racing to make the workflow simpler, cleaner and more countertop-friendly.

Brooklyn Steel Co., another Core Home brand, also moved into home electrics with an all-in-one espresso machine in 2026, which makes Thyme&Table’s launch look less like a one-off and more like a company-wide push. The real shift here is not just that Walmart is selling a fully automatic espresso machine. It is that a bean-to-cup setup is being treated like a normal home purchase, right beside the toaster and the air fryer.