[adorno]

Walmart v. Amazon. Steel cage match. Loser leaves town.

I think Walmart could easily win that match.

Walmart, as a store, is more profitable. Walmart has many more stores than Amazon has fulfillment centers. Walmart doesn't have to worry about the kind of infrastructure that Amazon needs in order to serve it's many thousands of merchants.

[Jamestown1630]

I think I’ve only been to a Walmart once - there isn’t one near enough to us (we don’t like to drive a lot.)

Why does everyone like them so much?

[Dave W]

But Amazon has 60,000 of its own trucks out every day delivering products, sometimes same day delivery and they have 100,000 on order - the second largest workforce of over 800,000 to Wal-Mart’s 1.5 million (domestic only). Wal-Mart uses personal vehicles to deliver products. Either way, retail will never be the same, and in the long run, Amazon is hurt that multiple companies will develop the logistics to compete in home delivery. It will get very interesting.

[bigbob]

Yep. Walmart’s success is built on scale and efficiency, this is their wheelhouse.