SOME things I buy online.
Most I prefer to do the actual shopping.
Stores are not going away.
In the future we will all have multi-purpose, multi-material 3D printers installed in all our homes. Then getting a new product would just involve purchasing/downloading the blueprints and waiting for the build to complete.
If the price is the same I buy from Walmart because if I decide to return the item I don’t have to ship it.
Next I hope to get them to deliver and help me put the groceries away.
The internet is not secure. I will not use it for commercial purposes until it is secure. I would buy more from Wal-Mart if I could order online items in store and pay for them in store. I recently ordered boat paint from builders square not from Wal-Mart just for that reason.
I ordered the online product at store and paid for it at the store. To bad they don’t sell more of the same products.
I went to Wal-Mart recently to buy an IPad with internet connection. They only had the ones that are tablets only, so I went to Best Buy where they had what I wanted and set me up with an internet account in the store.
We purchase quite a bit from both Amazon and Walmart. If we can find something at our local Walmart stores we do not purchase it from Amazon unless it is considerably less expensive. This is because we would prefer to add to Walmart’s profits rather than Jeff Bezo’s profits.
In my little world deep in a rural area, no one beats Amazon for ease and friendly online shopping. I buy from them two to three times per week. I shop at local Walmart at least once/wk. I probably spend more at Amazon.
Sears was in that same situation in the late 80s/early 90s. The Brennan Bros who ran the RNC into the ground also ran Sears and Montgomery Ward into the ground.
The board finally got rid of Brennan and brought in Martinez. Martinez and his people set out to be nimble enough to compete. He had the support of most of us at the bottom. But middle management fought for the 1950s business model and sabotaged everything Martinez and a chain of successors tried.
I do not know Walmart middle management. Can Walmart do what Sears had the opportunity to do but could not overcome opposition from within?
-—might include helping open a cashier-less, brick-and-mortar retail store ——
My walmart as self checkout requiring a credit card. I almost lways use this checkout method if there are few items.
Thesame store recently experimented with an I phne aap that allowed you to scan the bar code and then on completion go to a screen where you scanned a code and the transaction was billed to your credit card and the receipt was saved to your account’s memory
I used that service as well and it worked good when there were few items.
The service was cancelled aand all the bugges equipped with phone holders had them removed.
I suspect that the service was a teest and will be resumed when the bugs found are eliminated.