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Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by dropofwill »

mattmanser wrote: post #166
ryanianian wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the time of the takeover, Jet was doing pretty innovative tech while walmart had a very terrible ecommerce offering. Jet used to have this thing where they would offer you live-calculated discounts on items that were in the same FC as items already in your cart since those items would cost them less to ship. It was kinda gimmicky, but it sure was a cool tech demo. I strongly believe that Jet was a longer-term acqu…

Silly thing to pick on. I like a drink with co-workers, but totally understandable not to at work, especially as a lot of their workers definitely couldn't because it'd be dangerous. Or do you think it should be one rule for the richly paid programmers, and another for the low paid warehouse workers?

I’ve read that it’s common in Germany to drink a liter of beer or so at work, even in manufacturing.

Besides the drinking thing one of my friends said they were trying to ban swearing as well?

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Post by ganstyles »

duxup wrote: post #180
bitexploder wrote: post #142

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 ordered two items from Amazon recently. Both got in this weird state where the tracking showed they were shipped. Great, then they both hit this location where they were "delayed". I got a notice about that. Then Amazon has this weird status where Amazon says "You can request a replacement or refund in X days." then it says something about "It might be lost." And it stays in that state for days ... But only if you…

With Amazon this exact chain of events happened to me. And also confirmed that they don't really give you that status unless you click through the app. In the end, it took five days to get something I ordered as same day delivery.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by twostorytower »

zhte415 wrote: post #99
edgefield0 wrote: post #84

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Why would you give up buy.com for "rakuten"?! What is rakuten anyway? Is this an established online retailer? First time I'm hearing of this company.

Rakuten is very big in Japan, pretty established. Like Amazon/eBay, but a bit different. They've also got global but quite cautious ambitions. Interesting trivia from a friend working there, and quite unusual for a Japanese company: most (Project Management, Development, Management) internal communication above a certain job-grade level is conducted in English, including in Japan.

This is true and really neat. I was in Japan a couple years ago and met a product manager that worked at Rakuten and he told me the same thing.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by tombert »

As a former Jet employee, this makes me pretty sad.

I took the job at Jet because I wanted to learn more about F#, coming from a Haskell background, and I was happy to find that my coworkers were all really smart people and the codebase, while far from perfect, was written using functional concepts, and avoided the "writing C# in F#" trap.

I left Jet partly because there had been talks of absorbing Jet into Walmart, which was fine, but also moving everyone to a JVM stack and off of F#, and I'm not a huge fan of Java. This, in combination with an offer from one of the big "brand name" tech companies, gave me an impetus to move on.

Still, I will always miss my time at Jet. It was an incredibly fun work environment that fostered learning and was typically very good to its employees.

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Post by MiroF »

Symmetry wrote: post #167
benburleson wrote: post #58

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Compared to walmart.com, though, there's no reason to keep it. As a consumer, I don't really know/trust jet.com.

There are class complications that make using the Walmart brand potentially problematic, though. People with college degrees who would shop at Whole Foods or Costco or boutique retailers look down on Costco but wouldn't have those associations with Jet.com. I'm sure Walmart has researched this but keeping both brands would seem worth it from that angle.

> Costco

I'm almost certain you meant to say Walmart here.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by hoten »

thrwywmt wrote: post #174

Walmart bought Jet for two reasons (1) Walmart's Global eCommerce big re-write was an expensive mess. About a billion over budget and two three years behind timeline promises. There was leadership churn and they needed a new CEO of that business unit - Marc Lore made sense. Prior to Lore the CEOs (and CTO for that matter) were not technical at all. (2) They wanted to make some changes that would make the eCommerce bu…

> The acquisition blindsided the eCommerce CTO. DD was done out of Bentonville and was rumored to be partially done by a SVP at Google.

This is super interesting. Why would an SVP at Google be involved?

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Post by divbzero »

tombert wrote: post #224

As a former Jet employee, this makes me pretty sad. I took the job at Jet because I wanted to learn more about F#, coming from a Haskell background, and I was happy to find that my coworkers were all really smart people and the codebase, while far from perfect, was written using functional concepts, and avoided the "writing C# in F#" trap. I left Jet partly because there had been talks of absorbing Jet into Walmart,…

This is disappointing to hear. When Jet was acquired, I thought a significant motivation (and justification for acquisition price) was to give Walmart access to the Jet’s tech stack. Apparently this was not the case.

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Post by adamc »

arkades wrote: post #118
dumbfounder wrote: post #111

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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…

Thanks for your perspective. I think this makes sense, and is probably often true. That doesn't necessarily mean the comments have no value -- often they elicit discussion that makes the behavior make more sense.

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Post by jpindar »

speedgoose wrote: post #161
TallGuyShort wrote: post #150

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So is it NOT one of the most valuable brands in the world then? Despite Forbes' list of valuations? What exactly in the original comment about the strength of the brand do you even think is incorrect?

The original comment isn't about the value of the brand according to Forbes, but the strength of the brand. I just say that the brand is strong only in USA but not so much outside. Not many people care about or even know the brand in most countries. So it's not a lot of strength worldwide even though it's valuable in Forbes and very strong in USA. Coca-Cola or Apple are much more strong worldwide.

As an American I have never purchased anything from Timmies or Tesco but I consider them strong brands.

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Post by flurdy »

Terretta wrote: post #77
MangoCoffee wrote: post #54

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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.

Ditto: play.com -> rakuten

I did use play.com lots, but never Rakuten so far.

That may also be that I don't buy CDs, DVDs anymore.

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