Why does Amazon still exist? what's the difference walmart

Competition.

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>>59267008
Wal-Mart has to offer products and prices in line with their brick-and-mortar stores. Amazon does not have this restriction on the same level.

Amazon is 100x better.

>>59267008
Try harder next time or we're canceling our deal.

>>59267008
They waited too long and also walmart is bad in the public eye.

amazons other sellers are also real businesses, while walmarts stores sound shady as fuck.
also walmarts site is sorta shit.

amazon on the other hand has built quiet a powerful reputation for customer service, free shipping, great returns, even giving your money back before you mail the item.

Walmart wont even take basic shit back without a recite. They also do petty shit as retaliation even when you haven't been rude.

Walmart has been shitting it's pants over Amazon. In fact, all these stores and distributors are. Even food stores.

Will we see a Microsoft like monopoly trial in the 10's?

>>59267051
pls dont fire me

>>59267077
Get to work.

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prime, two day standard, and if you live in a city, possibly same day arrival.

Amazon wins because of the excellent service, most items have a 30 day no questions asked refund

>>59267008
Did some christmas shopping online with walmart since there's one near my house.

Two times items were physically in the store but I had to wait for them to be shipped because even though I did store pickup they wouldn't let me take one of the 15 they had on the shelf.

Customer service in store has nothing to do with the website so they can't do returns, issue refunds, or anything related if there's an issue.

Calling customer service gets you some dude in alabama or something and if you do have to do a return you either have to ship it back at your expense or go to the store and hope someone there will let you return it with a shipping receipt (one time they did, one time they didn't). Stuff from non-walmart sellers can't be returned to store at all.

Their online system is really a clusterfuck of miscommunication and Amazon has it down to a science.

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>>59267339
walmart's inventory accuracy is fucking garbage and the in store pickup is a meme. best buy might take an hour or two but it's easy to get your order caught in limbo.
>Calling customer service gets you some dude in alabama or something
they're based in Arkansas where walmart was founded.

>>59267163
walmart is doing free 2 day for $35+ orders, no membership or extra payment required. they don't have the "fulfilled by" program like amazon which is a blessing for amazon (wider selection often at better prices) and a curse (co-locating inventory from sellers has resulted in entire product categories [coin cell batteries, first party cell phone chargers, microSD cards] becoming unbuyable as counterfeits are put in the same bin as real items and seller alone will not save you for this reason if it's fulfilled by amazon).

>>59267179
Yeah I used one of their drop-off lockers for the first time a few weeks ago.
Didn't even know they were a thing or that they had lockers on the side of some 7-11 near me.
Much nicer than having to ship something back.

>>59267374
>inventory accuracy is garbage

Dude, I had the items in my fucking hand.

>>59267397
well that's just one problem. example: there are a brand of rotomolded coolers (YETI) that are expensive as fuck (think $250 for a 20 quart cooler) because they keep ice for a five plus days, are well constructed, etc... Walmart sees this and gets california innovations to make a similar 26 quart product under Walmart house brand ozark trail for $96 retail. it took me MONTHS to find that cooler. any store that listed 1 or more didn't have it in stock, and I picked up two of them (one for self, another for friend) at stores that said none.

i've had the other issue where there's plenty of stock and then they're just too fucking lazy to pick it for in store pick up, in which case I go item in hand, if the price is different on walmart.com I show them the item in the app, and they PM it at the CS counter and I cancel my online pickup from the app.

>>59267384
Orlando?

>>59267384
i have enough coming inbound via UPS/Fedex that leaving it out for the driver when he picks it up, i'll just do it.

otherwise, nearest UPS store is a mile and a half from my house on the way to any major visit out.

>>59267008
Ameritard that can't think out of the box...

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>>59267374
I was unaware of Walmart's free two day shipping. That definitely looks like a challenge to amazon to me.

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>>59267339
>Their online system is really a clusterfuck of miscommunication

I ordered a new tire from the auto/tire whatever section of their site, "oh your store has a tire service center to install it for you", ok good.
They text me that it's in, I go to the tire center and the guy says because I ordered it online myself it will be at the online pickup counter with everything else.

>carrying a truck tire across the whole store to give it to the tire center
>Walmart face

Glad I only got one.

>>59267438

Deltona.

>>59267490
Amazon had generally raised the slow free shipping threshold to $49 shortly before. Amazon's response was to lower it back to $35 for dogshit slow 5-7 business day shipping. We'll see if Walmart's gambit causes more harm to Amazon in the long term.

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>>59267465
Yeah very thankful you Euros or (what ever you are) are so blessed with the intelligence and spirit of innovation to create these amazing companies and services like Amazon and ... oh wait.....

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>>59267540
I sure hope so, Bezos is a massive faggot for funding the washington post

>>59267025
walmart's logistics aren't to be underestimated. warehouse wise they're very good on cheap, efficient distribution wise. at retail, their ability to keep stock is poor, as is worker motivation. CS is not as good as amazon's at retail or online.

amazon also has major logistics issues, at least in the sense of inventory. here's an example.

Amazon, Bob, Joe, and Chen all sell energizer CR2032 batteries. Let's say amazon sells them for $8/5 batteries and Bob/Joe/Chen sell them for $5/5 fulfilled through Amazon (prime benefits, shipping thresholds, yada yada). Amazon and Bob buy real batteries actually from Energizer. Joe and chen buy fakes.

amazon has a bin in their warehouse for this particular part. whenever amazon gets their own orders, or shipments from bob/joe/chen, they dump it into the same bin. whether you order from Amazon, Bob, Joe, or Chen you have an EQUAL chance of getting a fake.

this has rendered entire product categories (coin cell batteries, first party cell phone chargers, microsd cards, etc.) as not being worth ordering at amazon. if you're able to tell it's fake (e.g. programs to test if memory is fake and overwriting a much smaller amount of memory) then you still have to deal with the hassle of a return and waiting for the real item.

apple is suing amazon saying 90% of "first party apple iPhone chargers" are fake, and I totally believe it. i personally got burned on the coin cell batteries and now only buy them at retail where they're substantially more expensive, but the batteries in my car keys won't die in a week.

>>59267558
bezos is a huge faggot and amazon is never a place I'd want to work. the work culture is toxic top down. it's a great company to have on your resume for white collar jobs. pick rates/pay/warehouse conditions are fucking horrible, and on the white collar side the jobs are salaried with huge pressure for hours. i work for a european company (in the US) and I make similar bank with a much lower pressure on hours. if I need to do a ten or twelve hour day on rare occasion to get shit done that's fine, if I'm getting shit done from 9AM-2PM that's fine too.

Wapo isn't even fucking funny and the way bezos is funding it is borderline disturbing. imagine if trump bought out the NYT or something similar, there would be shock and outrage. but bezos is a liberal, so there's no concern that the owner of an ecommerce giant owns a major newspaper.

>>59267008
When I can buy anywhere even near the amount of goods from Walmart as I can from Amazon, let me know.

>>59267008
Amazon delivers to outside burgerstan.
Walmart does not. While I'm sure that Walmart is an excellent company, I have never had any dealings with them. I have bought stuff from Amazon though. They kinda suck compared to local online retailers, but they're not that bad.

>>59267008
Amazon sells sex toys and sex toy accessories.

I like Amazon because it is easy to take advantage of them.

Walmart cashier here. AMA

>>59268020
They also sell porn :^)

>>59269196
Are you guys stupid enough to accept bricks in place of a console or something?

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>>59269196
I watch your type leave during late night shifts. My question is this: How tired are your brains will you clock out and make the long trek back to your vehicles?

>>59269196
What's your return policy on bricked phones

>>59269196
I want to work so bad in a big supermarket before they get killed by online retailing. Any advices you have for me to survive in there?

Target was pretty good when I tried it actually

>>59269264
I've never seen an xbox return take place but at least for TVs they have to match the serial number on the box and the tv. I would imagine the same for xboxes

>>59269267
When most cashiers leave we just cleaned up the register and turned our tills in. It's a small break but we're still tired.

>>59269292
Once again I've never seen a phone return but as long as you're in the return window it's probably fine.

>>59269312
Depends what you do. Cashiering is hell during the holidays and weekends. Most other departments are pretty chill but if you go into management it can be bad depending on the store. In my store the management works 60+ hours a week without overtime and are pissy 24/7

>>59269356
>but we're still tired
This corroborates with my observations. I just like to avoid messy situations is all.

>>59269356
Ah I see. I have heard of people turning in bricks and shit.

>>59267008
- Amazon has better logistics
- People who work at Amazon are happier and get paid more and don't get cucked out of benefits, so they spread good word about the company, unlike WalMart employees who constantly get hours and benefits cut and complain all the time
- can't buy sex dolls from Walmart.com

>>59267057
Unlikely, It's not like people buy exclusively on Amazon, I would venture to say that even most of the hardcore autists still go out to buy groceries.

>>59271259
Amazon developers are generally pretty miserable

>>59267008
You can't buy random chink shit from Walmart.com.

Also, Walmart doesn't sell GTX 1080 Ti.

>>59271259
>People who work at Amazon are happier and get paid more

No

the biggest value to me is amazon is the user reviews. even non-book items hold tremendous value in my shopping.

>>59271259
>People who work at Amazon are happier
Nice cover up.

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>>59267112
walmart btfo