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> Too bad that it is doomed to be associated with Java forever. Maybe because it's in the name ️
Eh, I don't think JavaScript is really associated with Java these days.
It was referring to the JVM
Walmart says it will discontinue Jet
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Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet
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Maybe premium is the wrong word. Levis and Huffy were never designer brands, they were the standard in quality. Like Tide Detergent, Heinz Ketchup or Coca Cola, they were brand to beat. The pattern seems to happen many brands over time that sell out or fail. You see it across markets with brands like Packard Bell, Kodak, Polaroid, Martha Stewart, Kate Spade, RCA, etc. 50 years ago if you had a Zenith or RCA TV it was…
True, but this isn't Wal Mart's fault, it's China's fault. For instance, half a dozen Japanese electronics manufacturers tried to sell televisions, a business that the Japanese have dominated for 40 years. Half of them threw in the towel. People buy on price; nobody was going to pay a 25% premium for a Pioneer or a JVC TV. At the same time, Chinese companies like TCL began gobbling market share. I'm typing this on a…
> True, but this isn't Wal Mart's fault, it's China's fault.
It was Walmart that drove manufacturing to China. Walmart wanted name brands and dictated the price point at which they were willing to buy those brands. When the manufacturers did the numbers they realized that they could only service Walmart if they outsourced.
The companies setup factories in China and basically showed the Chinese how to make the products. Eventually the Chinese started to produce competing products that were at first inferior but have gradually gotten better.
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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…
Tesco and ASDA have both been delivering to anyone throughout, and Sainsbury’s has opened out to anyone in the last week or so.
Not one of them would deliver to
me. Amazon fresh neither.