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Post by ryanianian »

mattmanser wrote: post #284
ryanianian wrote: post #260

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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.

Booze is different. Booze is a drug that makes people do silly things. You can almost guarantee that before they brought in this rule, some guy groped a girl while drunk after drinking at the office. That's the size they're at. There's a world of legal difference when that happens under your roof, or after work.

This is skewing off-topic, but prohibiting alcohol is not going to stop people from drinking it, nor is it going to stop people from doing silly/gropy things at the office. A ban only conveys contempt and mistrust of employees. Focus on toxic culture that makes people feel like they need to drink or are entitled to grope.

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maxden wrote: post #59
snarf21 wrote: post #21

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I don't understand why Walmart doesn't have a customer supplied delivery program. Using the app, you would sign in when you enter the store. It would inform you of any deliveries within X miles of your home. It tells you how much you would be paid in store credit to do those deliveries. So you start shopping with say $33.50 already in your pocket. Then you just drop off a couple of bags at a few houses on your way ho…

Some customers might not like other customers knowing where they live? Obviously you can obscure some details but if you remove names would it require the customer to scan the package to confirm its theirs? I guess you could make it opt in for community delivery, otherwise you wait for a doordash delivery?

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Post by throwaway55554 »

snarf21 wrote: post #21
pgrote wrote: post #8

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…

I don't understand why Walmart doesn't have a customer supplied delivery program. Using the app, you would sign in when you enter the store. It would inform you of any deliveries within X miles of your home. It tells you how much you would be paid in store credit to do those deliveries. So you start shopping with say $33.50 already in your pocket. Then you just drop off a couple of bags at a few houses on your way ho…

If I were a burglar and wanted to do some casing, this would be a legit way to do it.

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Post by Symmetry »

meter wrote: post #302
Symmetry wrote: post #298

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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.

Oh, thanks. Yes it is.

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Post by Symmetry »

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.

Oops, that should have been "would shop at Whole Foods or Costco or boutique retailers look down on Walmart"

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Post by skinnymuch »

gonehome wrote: post #263
coldpie wrote: post #176

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There has to be _someone_ who wants to be the high-quality seller. Even Newegg went down the eBay path. I understand it's profitable, but surely being a very successful #2 is OK too?

I think this might be Shopify's play, at least it would be what I would do if I was them. Enable high quality sellers to have their own branded website to sell their own product directly. Then make it easy to find the Shopify sites via some general search or directory. You're able to slowly build up power this way without it being too obvious, and you provide an immediately valuable service to sellers that aligns inc…

Shopify has Shop app now. And some sites have integrated Shopify pay as an option to pay. I assume it’s Stripe white labeled.

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Post by kevstev »

thrwywmt wrote: post #186
kevstev wrote: post #183

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I agree with all of these statements. JK IMHO set their e-commerce business back 3 years at least. He was the champion of a horrific monolith that was delivered years late. Not quite sure what you are referring to in terms of making changes that would make e-commerce unprofitable for a long time. Your last point I agree with as well- I often felt they were far too conservative- mid-upper management was often overpaid…

RE: eCommerce unprofitable comment At a crude level: To compete with Amazon means running eCommerce at a loss just like Amazon do. AWS subsidizes Amazon eCommerce, brick-and-mortar subsidizes Walmart eCommerce. It is more nuanced than that of course but at a high level that is a big challenge to profit. RE: JK. He surrounded himself with a handful of smart technical VPs and lots of dumb ones that he held close. The g…

Heh I had almost forgotten about "mobile" and that tension. My focus was always on fighting against Pangaea, which was related, but when they folded mobile I found it to be a reasonable decision- the time had past where having a separate org just for mobile apps didn't make sense in a responsive world. I just checked and there is still a "mobile alumni" group on FB, though it hasn't been active in 2 years.

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Post by skinnymuch »

innagadadavida wrote: post #189
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 switched to Walmart after Amazon’s recent knuckle headed moves. Unfortunately, the Walmart app is not as good. Even worse, it connects to the following trackers: doubleclick.net, app-measurement.com, braze.com, googlesyndication.com, google tag services.com. This is shocking and super scary and Walmart needs to get some decent tech talent to fix their junk.

You mostly named Google

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Post by TallGuyShort »

speedgoose wrote: post #162
buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #149

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> Just because it's an almost entirely American brand doesn't change anything GP said.

I simply disagree that's a strong brand worldwide because it's only a USA brand.

No one even said "strong brand worldwide" they said "one of the strongest brands in the world". Does a professional athlete have to compete overseas to be recognized as being exceptionally good at their sport, if they absolutely dominate in their home country, and their home country happens to be very significant in that sport? If you're going to get hung up on details, don't reword them.

Would someone who qualifies for the Olympics for the first time from a powerhouse country not qualify as "one of the best in the world"?

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Post by tombert »

iLemming wrote: post #258
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.

I should have clarified; they were moving mostly to Kotlin and Java.

I don't have a problem with the JVM; virtually all my personal projects nowadays are in Clojure, and I actually gave a talk at Conj last year....so yeah, I'm a fan :).

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