Walmart threatens to cut ties with truckers that also haul for Amazon
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Re: Walmart threatens to cut ties with truckers that also haul for Amazon
#2Jeez.
Walmart seem really damned insecure about themselves. This isn't the first petty BS they've come out with regarding Amazon.
Re: Walmart threatens to cut ties with truckers that also haul for Amazon
#3This is a bit different than their similar threat to suppliers that use AWS. The venn diagram of truckers that carry for each is likely just one circle. This would create a weird industry split since Amazon and Walmart are so dominant in volume of shipments.
I wonder if this might be illegal even if it's not antitrust worthy.
Re: Walmart threatens to cut ties with truckers that also haul for Amazon
#4I feel like truckers should tell Walmart to shove it. This is getting abusive
Re: Walmart threatens to cut ties with truckers that also haul for Amazon
#5Walmart is lashing out like it already knows Amazon is going to win. The only play it has left is to bully partners.
Re: Walmart threatens to cut ties with truckers that also haul for Amazon
#6First AWS, now this.
At what point does the DOJ step in? Isn't this anticompetitive behavior? I've heard that Reagan-era deregulation changed a lot of the relevant law, but I'm not clear on how. Is Walmart doing this with the expectation of impunity because there's no longer a crime to charge them with, or because they see themselves as immune to prosecution?
Re: Walmart threatens to cut ties with truckers that also haul for Amazon
#7Will they include USPS, UPS, and FedEx in this?
Re: Walmart threatens to cut ties with truckers that also haul for Amazon
#8"Amazon offers $0.10 more per mile, leaving Walmart with no truckers"
But really, Wal-mart needs to get over themselves and do what they need to do to adapt, rather than being the bully they've always been.
It isn't like they refuse technology, they have a pretty decent technology team as far as I can tell.
Re: Walmart threatens to cut ties with truckers that also haul for Amazon
#9I feel like truckers should tell Walmart to shove it. This is getting abusive
Unfortunately, truckers don't usually have that option as they are often times wages slaves to their jobs through debt by being forced to buy their semi truck: https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forc....
Re: Walmart threatens to cut ties with truckers that also haul for Amazon
#10Walmart is lashing out like it already knows Amazon is going to win. The only play it has left is to bully partners.
This isn't really new for Walmart. Their thing has long been to use their market position as something of a monopsonist to extract concessions from suppliers. Give us these things packaged differently, and for 7% less, and make some of them Walmart exclusives (you're not selling Target the same thing, are you??), or we won't sell your stuff anymore.