That’s crazy. Target smokes Amazon for most things these days, especially with pickup. Ditto for NewEgg and Walmart.
Amazon is increasingly overrated, they peaked a decade ago and have declined to a warehouse club/flea market.
Amazon is increasingly overrated, they peaked a decade ago and have declined to a warehouse club/flea market.
They're not as far along, but going down that path is what causes so many issues with counterfeits and generally poor experiences. I accidentally bought some thermal paste from a newegg seller who shipped it via slow-boat-from-china, and it took weeks to get to me. It was technically listed, but I hate any shopping experience that forces me to be on high alert not to get screwed (as minor as super-slow shipping is).
I went from buying almost all PC parts from NewEgg (without even bothering to price shop), to pretty much avoiding the site entirely.
If you look at almost any of the 3rd party sellers' pages and sort by rating, you'll pretty much see the same pattern on all: a tiny handful of 4-5 star reviews, 1 star reviews by the bottom of page 1, and the remaining 80 pages of products have no reviews at all.
Is this really helping Walmart/NewEgg/Amazon/etc vs them just selling the same products directly themselves? Why do this -- are they just trying to avoid these sellers starting competing no-name e-commerce sites?
My thought would be this allows them to pivot from being a "logistics" company to being a "tech" company, providing a "platform" for others.