Can Jet.com Take on Amazon and Win?

What they forgot - jet.com is (secretly) backed by Amazon's biggest competitor(the chinese alibaba)[1]. Since AliBaba's revenue is probably larger than Amazon, since Alibaba is definetly bigger in cross-border retail - and it's investing huge sums into creating a global logistics network that could ship things from china to any customer in the world in 4-7 days(and also ship things from local warehouses for less time) , and it's model is less expensive than Amazon for manufacturers who want to sell direct-to-consumer(with great savings) ,and since there's decent likelihood of chinese government support behind the scenes, There's a good chance AliBaba will win the heart of the low-price seeking consumer.

Anyway, it's gonna be an interesting battle. I'm bringing the popcorn.

[1]http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/04/alibaba-backing-amazon-riva...

Sorry to vent but...

I had a really bad interview experience with Jet, to the point where I would never shop with them as a customer. They recruited me, I passed two phone interviews, and I thought I did well in the on-site interview. And then... nothing. No feedback, no formal rejection, just nothing. I emailed and called several times but even then I never got a "no" - I would get a "we're still trying to figure out our team organization". There was absolutely no communication from their side at all. So it's several months later now and I've given up any hope of any kind of response. And I'm walking away from the experience just feeling kind of disrespected. (It's a shame too because I would have loved to work at an F# shop.)

Every touch point an organization has with someone on the outside is the opportunity to help or hurt your image a tiny little bit. And I think Jet could definitely use some work in that department.

Probably not. But if you want to shop on price, check out Walmart.com. They're pretty consistently clobbering Amazon across a variety of product categories.