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I switched to Walmart a few years ago and their online experience has been more consistent.

Although I detect it’s starting to drift as they switch to a “marketplace” approach similar to Amazon.

The marketplace stuff is the killer and downfall of any online shopping experience. Right now Walmart is easy enough to search and target and Home Depot are pretty good too, but once they start really focusing on the marketplace where they just make money with no expenses then it all goes to hell.

Ordering items from the system where you are buying products from a local Walmart store for pickup or delivery works very well. I find their Amazon-style marketplace chaotic, high priced and fairly useless, though.

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