Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon

Post by rconti » Tue, May 14, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC

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Walmart is the reason vast numbers of people can no longer buy anything good locally. They were killing local stores before Amazon was. I'm rooting for their death, as I have since I first heard about them in the mid 90s, pushing out local music retailers so they can sell the censored, watered-down crap they strongarmed labels into producing. Never spent a penny there, never will.

In my area, music stores managed to survive Walmart for the most part because they got into buying and selling used. Stores like Best Buy also cut into local music sales substantially. The end result was inevitable, however, regardless of Walmart or Best Buy. First Napster, then Apple, then Spotify. If anything, the local music store survived by offering a premium, through their knowledge, sense of community, vinyl o…

Post by igetspam » Tue, May 14, 2019, 7:01 PM UTC

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So...you need a bigger mailbox?

Not an option for everyone obviously but it's actually not a bad idea. I got an "extra large" rural mailbox a few years back and it's been great. Not everything fits of course but most basic book and small to medium parcels do. It also means I don't need to get my mail held even if I'm out of town for 10 days or so. My postal carrier even thanked me for getting it at one point.

Post by igetspam » Tue, May 14, 2019, 7:04 PM UTC

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So you're saying this a pretty good investment of my time, right? On top of my salary, I can effectively make an additional $120k/yr? You know the opportunity cost argument you're making is false, don't you? You're arguing that I'm risking doing something else while doing this and there's a cost associated with that risk. In reality, I risk nothing because I'm a salaried employee whose time isn't 100% filled with mus…

It's a different poster, he's agreeing with you by calculating that those 5 minutes are quite lucrative.

Post by igetspam » Tue, May 14, 2019, 7:06 PM UTC

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I hope they can do a better job than Amazon but I'm not confident. I'm currently gaming their system of one day delivery failure credits because they can't seem to wrap their heads around the fact hat USPS won't deliver to my door and the packages are too large. USPS gets a box, it won't fit, they take it back to the post office and tell me I can pick it up the next day. I contact amazon, tell them it's late because…

Have you tried calling the post office and asking them to deliver large packages to your door? Our carrier does this for us.

Post by neetdeth » Tue, May 14, 2019, 7:12 PM UTC

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Amazon Fresh is not full vertical integration, merely seems like Costco's ordering program or similar. Amazon Fresh used to be quite popular in Seattle a half decade ago, but I barely see their empty containers anymore. I think Amazon saw their volume falling with Amazon Fresh and was threatened by their vendors and wholesalers with higher prices, thus purchasing Whole Foods to attempt to stabilize their cost on good…

> Amazon Fresh used to be quite popular in Seattle a half decade ago, but I barely see their empty containers anymore. Amazon has been cannibalizing Fresh by including (a smaller selection of) grocery items in Prime Now, which (unlike Fresh, which is a premium upgrade) is included in the base cost of Prime.