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Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by lordleelu »

donmcronald wrote: post #292
A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #290

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Agreed on Newegg. I am currently dealing with two separate issues for items sold by 3rd party. Thankfully, both items were low cost so even if it ends up being a loss, it is not the end of the world, but I used to swear by Newegg. By comparison, Ebay is all third parties, but they have some way to discourage bad actors. Newegg and Amazon are a disappointment lately. I never thought I would not say it these days, but…

And BestBuy. It’s shocking how they’re falling all over themselves to destroy their brands with cheap third party trash.

Best Buy doesn't have a 3rd party marketplace.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by meter »

Symmetry wrote: post #298
MiroF wrote: post #225

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

No. People who shop at Costco tend to have the spare cash to buy lots of stuff at once and have lots of space to put it and so draw from a very different demographic than Walmart does, mostly. It's a bit of a Sam Vimes boot theory thing. https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Sam_Vimes_Theory_of_Econom...

You said “Costco” twice. The second time appears to be a typo.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by XMPPwocky »

ByteJockey wrote: post #295
iLemming wrote: post #258

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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.

It is a cool technology, but with the rise of docker (and related technologies), running things cross platform has less importance than it once did. I'm not saying it has zero importance, just less than the 90s/00s.

If Java had been able to provide it historically, "cross-platform sandboxed acceptable-to-high-performance execution of untrusted code" effectively describes WASM, which seems to be a fairly major emerging technology these days.

Perhaps JVM bytecode is arguably just too complex for safe verification... (although JavaCard interpreters manage to do it for a restricted subset (with similar restrictions to WASM!) without too many problems)

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by smabie »

siwatanejo wrote: post #297
smabie wrote: post #293

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I mean, considering that Scala has a much more powerful type system than F# and you can actually implement FP concepts like monads, functors, etc makes it arguably more FP than F#. While I haven't used F# much, as a professional OCaml and Scala dev, Scala is hands down the more powerful language. OCaml isn't bad, but it leaves a lot to be desired. A little offtopic, but if OCaml got rid of its module system, added ty…

Why do you say you cannot implement monads and functors in F#? sorry but this is bullshit

F# doesn't support higher-kinded types.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by MiroF »

Symmetry wrote: post #298
MiroF wrote: post #225

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

No. People who shop at Costco tend to have the spare cash to buy lots of stuff at once and have lots of space to put it and so draw from a very different demographic than Walmart does, mostly. It's a bit of a Sam Vimes boot theory thing. https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Sam_Vimes_Theory_of_Econom...

> No.

Well your comment isn’t particularly coherent then.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by freeopinion »

bitexploder wrote: post #212
jm4 wrote: post #171

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The marketplace is the reason I don’t use Walmart. The marketplace and commingled stock is Amazon’s biggest problem and Walmart appears to be playing catch-up rather than forging their own path. We don’t need another Amazon. I’ve been using Target, eBay, Best Buy and random sites lately. The Target experience is great even if they don’t have the same selection Amazon does.

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.

I really lament Newegg. It was very awesome for a long time in a way that Amazon couldn't match.

Lately, the 3rd-party market has really turned me off of them.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by projectileboy »

axaxs wrote: post #219
projectileboy wrote: post #4

FWIW, one could argue that Walmart didn’t pay $3B for Jet; they paid $3B for Marc Lore, which might still prove to have been a decent buy.

Not saying you're wrong, but Walmart acquired Jet 4 years ago. If their current web offering is the end result, I'd say they overpaid by about... 3 billion dollars.

Haha... I don’t totally disagree, but you might be missing the bigger picture. For example, under Marc Lore’s watch, Walmart Grocery rolled out in a very big way, which was a huge win.

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Post by travellingprog »

lordleelu wrote: post #301
donmcronald wrote: post #292

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And BestBuy. It’s shocking how they’re falling all over themselves to destroy their brands with cheap third party trash.

Best Buy doesn't have a 3rd party marketplace.

I think the US site doesn't, but the Canadian one does. If you follow the link below, you'll see there's a Best Buy Only toggle. That being said, it's nice that the let you quickly hide third party items.

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/brand/Samsung

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Post by freeopinion »

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/

TigerDirect has a terrible interface for trying to find the product you want. For instance, if you are looking for a laptop you can filter by price and by brand--that's it.

MicroCenter has sophisticated filtering ala Newegg, but in laptops for example, there is exactly 1 model that sports any AMD processor at all.

After more than 20 years of ecommerce growth, it is discouraging how bad things are.

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Post by downvoteme1 »

bonestamp2 wrote: post #152
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 was with you on walmart for awhile but now they're doing the same marketplace bullshit that amazon is doing and all expectations of quality and authenticity are lost again. If I want something used I'll go to ebay and if I want something drop-shipped from china I can go to aliexpress myself. So now I'm using Target.com whenever possible. It's often cheaper than amazon anyway. I actually started using walmart.com ov…

Walmart has a quick option to filter out marketplace items. On the desktop site, on the left hand site, just select retailer = Walmart and it will only show Walmart items .
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