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it seem like a waste not to continue the jet.com. its a simple domain that is easy to remember.
see also: buy.com -> rakuten // no amount of branding awareness tv ads are fixing the name recognition they lost with that one... still redirects though.
I now trust Walmart [jet.com] and Bestbuy more than Amazon. Walmart / Jet have made great strides in their online experience and I trust them more than Amazon now. I don't really care about the branding Jet or Walmart is fine. And for my rant/last straw with Amazon: My most recent Amazon frustration: I ordered a Ryzen processor "shipped and sold by Amazon" and got an opened and obviously installed processor. Pins wer…
I actually started using walmart.com over amazon a number of years ago when two things I ordered on Amazon arrived in walmart.com boxes. The resellers were just doing arbitrage and sure enough my $20 orders were an average of $6 cheaper at walmart.
Pretty sure Walmart has absorbed and replicated jet's backend throughout its (Walmart’s) entire backend. Interesting talk from Scott Havens here about why WalMart acquired them and what Walmart problems they were able to solve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FskIb9SariI There simply isn't a need for jet.com branding anymore.
it seem like a waste not to continue the jet.com. its a simple domain that is easy to remember.
It probably makes a lot more sense to focus on a single brand.
Walmart tried to make Jet.com focused on large cities but that didn’t do much.
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I am sure Walmart did the requisite analysis to figure out it was a smart move to shut the brand down. Cost to maintain brand, trajectory, number of loyal customers, etc. That isn't to say they couldn't have made a mistake, but this isn't their first rodeo, so I think you can assume some smart people looked at a bunch of angles before making the decision.
Nah. Walmart totally makes multi-million dollar business decisions with less diligence and critical analysis than random HN posters. I think of this as the social media Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. You see comments from folks with zero insight and no doubt no specialized knowledge of the relevant industry, recognize that they are likely just making an off-the-cuff comment without any value, open the next thread where it…
I now trust Walmart [jet.com] and Bestbuy more than Amazon. Walmart / Jet have made great strides in their online experience and I trust them more than Amazon now. I don't really care about the branding Jet or Walmart is fine. And for my rant/last straw with Amazon: My most recent Amazon frustration: I ordered a Ryzen processor "shipped and sold by Amazon" and got an opened and obviously installed processor. Pins wer…
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Well, hundreds of millions Americans do. It's one of the strongest brands in the world.
Millions (billions?) trust Facebook too. Yet, Facebook kept the Instagram brand and it paid off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Procter_%26_Gamble_bra...
Presumably they capture more of the overall market for detergent that way. Maybe the same mechanisms do not apply to retail in general.
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How is that any different than a doordash driver knowing where the customer lives? I really fail to see any meaningful distinction here.
Well for starters, one is an "employee" (contractor) who signed up to do that work specifically and has been verified that they can do it. The second example is just a customer walking around a store.
I now trust Walmart [jet.com] and Bestbuy more than Amazon. Walmart / Jet have made great strides in their online experience and I trust them more than Amazon now. I don't really care about the branding Jet or Walmart is fine. And for my rant/last straw with Amazon: My most recent Amazon frustration: I ordered a Ryzen processor "shipped and sold by Amazon" and got an opened and obviously installed processor. Pins wer…
This should be Walmart's lane: no third-party sellers, just the best place to buy branded, verified products.
I know it is a simple way to look at it, but Walmart on whole has been a game changer when it came to handling the lockdown. Where Amazon was taking weeks to get "non-critical" items shipped, Walmart had on average a 3 day wait for drive up pick up. They've introduced a yearly fee for delivery and we signed up. It's been top notch. In my area, they outsource the delivery to doordash. Order, pick a time for delivery a…
Different market and in the UK but there are no big supermarkets that currently deliver to non- vulnerable households. I ordered vegetables directly from the restaurant suppliers that had no more customers. In the Uk Amazon had this policy too but in reality most non essential/but useful items were sent to me in less than a week. Of course most of the very useful items were not in stock at all the first few weeks, an…
Given the sheer scale of the lockdown and following disruption the existing supermarkets have handled it really well except for the toilet paper situation which was beyond silly on the consumers part and there really wasn't much that the supermarkets could have done at that point.