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Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by ethagknight »

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…

That’s basically what DoorDash is, minus the liability

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by dingaling »

techer wrote: post #13
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…

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…

I'm in the UK and have had weekly Tesco deliveries consistently through this period. They do leave them at the gate now instead of carrying them in but other than that, and an 80 item per order limit, business as usual.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by tsco77 »

ryansmccoy wrote: post #15
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 was thinking about this as well, I think it has to do with Wal-Marts supply chain, distribution centers, and relationships with it's suppliers. I don't know the answer, but does Wal-Mart have more pull then Amazon? Also, regarding the article, Jet from my memory gave Wal-Mart the infrastructure for online sales, so it's not like they didn't get anything for it. If anything, they are likely playing accounting games…

All their stores are local warehouses, no?

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by nojito »

Pretty sure Walmart has absorbed and replicated jet's backend throughout its (Walmart’s) entire backend.

Interesting talk from Scott Havens here about why WalMart acquired them and what Walmart problems they were able to solve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FskIb9SariI

There simply isn't a need for jet.com branding anymore.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by coldpie »

swyx wrote: post #19
hadrien01 wrote: post #3

Here's another article if you don't want to visit Techcrunch because of its redirection to advertising.com: https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/walmart-shuts-down-jet-4-y...

what happened to Techcrunch to make it so shit? Like i'm sure even the people who work at Techcrunch hate how bad it has become. Did the company change hands or something?

Browsing Wikipedia briefly, Techcrunch has been owned by AOL since 2010; AOL was acquired by Verizon in 2015; Yahoo! was purchased by Verizon in 2016; AOL was merged with Yahoo! to become Oath in 2016, and I believe all of the above mentioned subdivisions are now circling Verizon's toilet. They're just trying to find ways to monetize before the flush happens. If you're going to die anyway, why not make a few bucks selling out your users?

Acquisitions are bad, folks.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by sct202 »

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…

Amazon I think is sandbagging the estimates. We got a gift card during the holidays and decided to spend it, and we're non-prime and put in 2 orders. Both shipping estimates were 1 month out and then suddenly delivered 2 days after the order.

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Post by cheez »

sct202 wrote: post #39
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…

Amazon I think is sandbagging the estimates. We got a gift card during the holidays and decided to spend it, and we're non-prime and put in 2 orders. Both shipping estimates were 1 month out and then suddenly delivered 2 days after the order.

Same, re Amazon.
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