11-20-2009, 10:57 AM | #1 |
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Walmart Takes on Amazon for Web Dominance
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/...-going-down%2F
Apparently Walmart intends to wear down Amazon's pricing dominance in internet sales penny by penny, with other e-tailers jumping on the bandwagon. In the short term, price wars are great for consumers. But, long term, smaller retailers that can't compete in the price wars may get priced out of the market. |
11-20-2009, 11:14 AM | #2 |
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Same as physical bookshops then...
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11-20-2009, 11:42 AM | #3 |
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Meh. Walmart.com has been an also-ran for a long time now, and I doubt that discounting 10 best-sellers is really going to make a difference.
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11-20-2009, 12:32 PM | #4 | |
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11-20-2009, 01:59 PM | #5 |
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I used to work in a copy shop and several of our customers were smaller retailers. Among them was an indie bookstore I had loved---until they started coming into the copy shop and turned out to be the most demanding, complaining, rude bunch of customers I ever served during my short tenure in the customer service industry I'll take 'big retailer, lower price' over supporting the little guy 'just because' any day...
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11-20-2009, 02:08 PM | #6 |
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Has anyone ever found a good book or magazine in the book section of a physical Wal-Mart? Their offerings are bland exponentiated.
Does walmart.com practice censorship with their online offerings as they do with the merchandise in their physical stores? |
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11-20-2009, 03:38 PM | #8 | |
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11-20-2009, 03:53 PM | #9 | |
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11-20-2009, 04:04 PM | #10 |
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Price wars are good, till there is no one left to fight. Eventually someone has to win.
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11-20-2009, 04:07 PM | #11 |
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Remember how Walmart did against NetFlix? I tried out Walmart's DVD movie rental system and it was horrible. You couldn't get anything you wanted to see and it took much longer to get anything you had ordered. I had hoped they had learned a lesson with that fiasco.
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11-20-2009, 05:00 PM | #12 |
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11-20-2009, 07:58 PM | #13 |
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The Super Wal Marts have a good selection I think...perfect no, as good as a book store, no. Not yet anyway
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11-20-2009, 08:10 PM | #14 |
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People go to Walmart to buy cheap clothes and beer, not to buy books.
This is a lot like McDonalds setting up it's own church and taking on the instituted religions of the world. |
11-20-2009, 10:00 PM | #15 | |
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As for spreading the money around the local community, which do you think hires more people, one Walmart or 10 mom-and-pop stores?. Sure, the *profits* might go out of town, but the *income* is spread out much more widely. My dislike of Walmart is the same as my dislike of most chain department stores-I have yet to find one that truly focuses on helping people. Take the incident that hit the news lately-in our local store if somebody was rude enough to cut in line, shoving other customer's goods aside, they'd probably be asked to leave. In Walmart? They left it up to the other customers to complain. I don't want to pay higher prices in the local stores-but I'm much more willing to help them out, e.g. put stuff back on the shelf for them, speak up if I see someone trashing something, etc. |
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