Walmart could easily compete in this space if their CTO wasn’t completely incompetent. Walmart’s website is seriously amateurish.
Conservative billionaires should consider development of conservative alternatives to Amazon, eBay, Facebook and the other monsters. If the sites maintained overtly conservative standards they would pick up 20% market share in short order.
You fund it. I’ll build. My company has the skills. :-)
Since Bezos’ attacks on Trump I have been trying to shift purchases from Amazon to Walmart - but that is not a pleasant process and Amazon far more often than Walmart has superior pricing.
Walmart’s pushing web shopping, likely changing many stores to be more order pickup than merchandise on the shelf, especially high theft stores. Maybe it’ll be grocery, clothing (need to try stuff on), eatery and web order pickup.
But, yeah, a cloddy website is a major turn-off. Amazon’s is fine. Like with airlines - hate most of them, love Southwest’s.
+1
The "asking questions and getting answers about products" part of WMT's site is essentially nonexistent.