Walmart says it will discontinue Jet • Hacker News Board

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by Roboprog » Tue, May 19, 2020, 10:03 PM UTC

benburleson wrote: post #58

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.

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

Exactly. This is the first time I’ve ever heard the name.

Like the post above said, much of the Jet acquisition was likely really just to absorb the IP and expertise, anyway.

That said, we recently ordered some patio furniture from Walmart.com after comparison shopping on Amazon and Home Depot. And I suppose next month we’ll find better deals on yet another site. Don’t get too cozy with any of these companies and keep your eyes open for price and quality drift.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by Ididntdothis » Tue, May 19, 2020, 10:04 PM UTC

cosmie wrote: post #238

bitexploder wrote: post #212

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Yeah, I have noticed that as well. Newegg is another one that went down the "Market place" approach and is why I didn't list them. I just use Micro center now. A little bit less selection, but not much and they will order almost anything for you and get it quickly.

TigerDirect[1] is a solid alternative to Newegg, that doesn't appear to have succumbed to the easy buck of the marketplace model. [1] http://www.tigerdirect.com/

Funny that TigerDirect is now the solid alternative to Newegg. Ten years ago it was the complete opposite. Sad to see how Newegg have destroyed themselves.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by aynyc » Tue, May 19, 2020, 10:09 PM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #237

gandalfian wrote: post #191

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IKEA.

I could name a hundred niche sellers too, but the allure of Walmart and Amazon is that they sell basically everything. I can buy a Macbook and Gatorade plus some brand name AA batteries for my RC car that I bought all in the same shopping trip. IKEA has good products but they don't come close to general merchandise stores like Amazon or Walmart.

Target?

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by mark-r » Tue, May 19, 2020, 10:10 PM UTC

lostapathy wrote: post #192

ckocagil wrote: post #98

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Millions (billions?) trust Facebook too. Yet, Facebook kept the Instagram brand and it paid off.

Brand trust goes both ways. It seems plausible that as walmart.com becomes better known as a good alternative to amazon for straightforward items, it might actually make people trust the walmart brand more - and put more shoppers in stores.

I don't think it's a matter of trust so much as classism. I know some people who simply won't go into a Walmart because they don't see themselves as the kind of people who would shop at Walmart.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by shanemhansen » Tue, May 19, 2020, 10:22 PM UTC

divbzero wrote: post #227

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.

Walmart's a big place, so I don't mean to contradict my sibling comment.

Across the Walmart.com websites I didn't see anything from jet tech. The only thing I heard talk of was essentially reporting to push Marc's basket economics passion.

I believe Jet's acquisition was essentially a way to buy Marc Lore as eCommerce CEO.

I've met with many Jet folks and they are an awesome crew to work with, but Jet didn't really operate at Walmart scale.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by annoyingnoob » Tue, May 19, 2020, 10:24 PM UTC

jumbopapa wrote: post #233

annoyingnoob wrote: post #172

I always wanted to like Jet, they just never had what I wanted. Placed 3 orders, each was cancelled when they could not fill it. Mostly didn't find what I needed. The world needs a real Amazon competitor.

You mean like Walmart?

Who owns Jet.com? No, I don't think Walmart is a great competitor to Amazon, at least for the way I shop.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by renewiltord » Tue, May 19, 2020, 10:25 PM UTC

Haha, this company was great. They just took money and burnt it on customer acquisition through fantastic coupons and then sold to Walmart. I love these businesses. I bought so much stuff I needed on Jet coupons. 25% off max $50? Don't mind if I do. Hope there's a new one.

I think I must have gone through like 4 different emails using slightly modified addresses and all my CCs.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by iLemming » Tue, May 19, 2020, 10:28 PM UTC

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,…

Repeat after me: "JVM is not Java." Clojure and Kotlin are the perfect proof of that. If you actually look closer, JVM is a pretty cool piece of technology. Too bad that it is doomed to be associated with Java forever.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by fortran77 » Tue, May 19, 2020, 10:31 PM UTC

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,…

I wouldn't touch a Java or JVM job either. Smart choice!

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by ryanianian » Tue, May 19, 2020, 10:32 PM UTC

mattmanser wrote: post #166

ryanianian wrote: post #126

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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?

It’s like companies requiring a tie. Fine. A tie is easy to put on. But if you’re requiring that all of a sudden what other rules do I have to worry about being added? I guarantee you random tech company X would see attrition if they enacted a business-casual dress-code. Same with booze.