Lots of stores now match Amazon prices and I buy from them.
The stores that do that will be the ones that survive.
When do the tax payers stop subsidizing Amazon?
Walmart already has the infrastructure and IT systems in place that Amazon is trying to build, and they’ve now invested in automation (ASRS) to further streamline the delivery to the customer. Amazon will continue to have a large share, but watch for Walmart to significantly grow in this space.
Amazon recruited a huge number of Walmart executives, to the point that Walmart sued Amazon. I expect it has also poached a large number of FedEx and UPS execs. The problem for UPS vs Amazon is that UPS is unionized, whereas Amazon is not. Amazon has the potential to become a big shipper for non-Amazon website shipments alongside FedEx and UPS. Whether it moves in that direction depends on how confident it is that becoming that huge in the shipping business is compatible with avoiding unionization. Its package handling side is already getting a lot of political static regarding work conditions. Its workers are probably getting paid about as well as union workers, but they are the best of the best in their category, the product of a gruelling weed-out process that has eliminated most of the less productive workers that tend to find a secure niche in union work forces like UPS’s, thereby dragging down UPS’s gross margins, with potentially company-ending consequences in a price war.
Walmart offers grocery delivery but I am too far away. They also offer quick grocery pickup. I tried it and everything went smooth. I also got $10 off.
I doubt I will use it again unless they have the $10 off again.
How Amazon can deliver $1 items overnight for free
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It’s not free when people are paying for Prime.
I use amazon for a lot of books because I look at the used book prices. VG is basically new for good prices.
Why would anybody order one can of cat food. That’s just gonna tick off your cat.