'Amazon nails in person pickup or Walmart nails online shopping.'
Amazon has nailed free shipping with prime. In person pickup costs money in time, fuel, available vehicle. Feels like checkmate in 2021 but this may change
Amazon has nailed free shipping with prime. In person pickup costs money in time, fuel, available vehicle. Feels like checkmate in 2021 but this may change
If I buy a product and it has issues—okay, it happens. Maybe I post a bad review or just don’t buy it again.
If I buy a product and it’s something else, the seller should be ashamed of themselves.
I have bought (and returned) countless fraudulent books from Amazon to the point where I had to weigh the books, count the pages, and compare with publishers.
And then I closed my prime membership and I’ll take the longer wait times for a real product.
Have any of the regulators taken note?
I've been reading Congress' anti-trust research and reports. Haven't seen this called out yet.
Companies like Amazon are carefully engineered to avoid that type of enforcement action. Nothing will happen until you have a major political shift - I’d guess somewhere around 2035-2045 when demographics shift the political dynamic in the US.
Once you get out of the Amazon funnel, why go to Walmart? There’s a hundred retailers that sell genuine KitchenAid mixers. Pick the one with the best price, or color scheme you prefer.
If you want to buy a $150 mixer, but also, say, a $10 book and a $5 cable, you'll be able to put those all in one cart at those vendors and get free postage.
If you go to some specialty mixer retailer, you'll have to buy the other items as a seperate transaction and pay for shipping on them.
I know in my household, we definitely will ask around "I'm buying something from Amazon, so I'll already be spending $25, does anyone want anything else on that order?"
I bought rope there (in a physical store) a few months ago, for tying down furniture in a truck. Got home, cut the rope, it was a foam core with braiding around it to make it seem like true rope.
This applies to their food items as well, by the way.
Not everywhere. I didn't renew my prime subscription a few years ago, because they rarely met their delivery times and I was starting to get broken, counterfeit, and obviously returned/resold items.
I consistently and daily choose no, fuck off and give me the free shipping I’ll wait. If I don’t have enough in my cart for free shipping I wait and add more to my cart later
That said, I know too many people who renew Prime like it was a church tithing. (Yes--I know about their yearly deal.)
It's not movies these people like either. These people love the formulated crap Netflix vomits.
Your post resonated with me because I try hard to avoid any monthly fees for any product. Plus--unless you order a lot, people are just giving Amazon free money.
You just reminded me to cancel Apple storage.
* It’s cheaper for Walmart as it can ride on the back of an existing trunk from a logistics perspective.
* Dependent on how confident you are on stock, Walmart could offer “instant” click and collect on any range in stock in store. This does depend on inventory policies and is more complicated than it initially seems though.
* It gets someone in your store which has an umbrella effect as they are likely to purchase something else.
Most are benefits for Walmart, but the lower delivery cost can be passed on to customers and instant pickup is great for customers when it happens. Furthermore, click and collect is great for people in flats or where leaving a parcel isn’t practical.