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OT Walmart in bed with Amazon
I thought shopping at Amazon meant saving money and not giving
business to Walmart, but started noticing too many of the "site to store" prices were precisely the same (to the penny) as they are on Amazon. Apparently stuff ships from Amazon's warehouse to Walmart stores. Probably not a good thing for consumers. |
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On 9/23/2013 4:39 PM, John Doe wrote:
I thought shopping at Amazon meant saving money and not giving business to Walmart, but started noticing too many of the "site to store" prices were precisely the same (to the penny) as they are on Amazon. Apparently stuff ships from Amazon's warehouse to Walmart stores. Probably not a good thing for consumers. you have any cites for these claims? Since Walmart refused to sell anymore kindles from Amazon last year, are Walmarts now allowed to sell kindles again? |
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Hench wrote:
John Doe wrote: I thought shopping at Amazon meant saving money and not giving business to Walmart, but started noticing too many of the "site to store" prices were precisely the same (to the penny) as they are on Amazon. Apparently stuff ships from Amazon's warehouse to Walmart stores. Probably not a good thing for consumers. you have any cites for these claims? It's easy enough to see if you do a lot of online shopping between Walmart and Amazon. Here are a few without putting much effort into it. They probably conform to a pattern, like "free shipping" and "site to store". At least two, probably more, Coleman Quickbeds... COLEMAN QUICKBED TWIN http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-200001...+quickbed+twin You might have to select "twin" in the "Size" drop-down box. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Coleman-20...tress/21783654 COLEMAN 4-IN-1 QUICKBED TWIN/KING http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-4-in-1...+quickbed+twin http://www.walmart.com/ip/Coleman-4-...ckBed/21914207 HOLMES TRUE HEPA ALLERGEN REMOVER http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...e+Air+Purifier http://www.walmart.com/ip/True-HEPA-...Holmes/9189154 |
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OT Walmart in bed with Amazon
Sorry, in the Amazon Holmes allergen filter link, you might have
to search for the price (88.87) to easily find it in the list. They are all sold by Walmart and by Amazon (officially) for precisely the same price. And there are probably hundreds or thousands more. Not sure, but maybe finding them could be done programmatically. There could be another reason, like price matching, but I doubt that. |
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OT Walmart in bed with Amazon
"John Doe" wrote in message ... Sorry, in the Amazon Holmes allergen filter link, you might have to search for the price (88.87) to easily find it in the list. They are all sold by Walmart and by Amazon (officially) for precisely the same price. And there are probably hundreds or thousands more. Not sure, but maybe finding them could be done programmatically. There could be another reason, like price matching, but I doubt that. Of course it is price matching. Stores price match their competition ALL THE TIME. Walmart doesn't need Amazon and Amazon doesn't need Walmart, but they do need to make sure they don't get undercut by the other. |
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OT Walmart in bed with Amazon
"Annie Woughman" anniewoughman hotmail.com wrote:
"John Doe" wrote in message news:l1r4og$n2b$1 dont-email.me... Sorry, in the Amazon Holmes allergen filter link, you might have to search for the price (88.87) to easily find it in the list. They are all sold by Walmart and by Amazon (officially) for precisely the same price. And there are probably hundreds or thousands more. Not sure, but maybe finding them could be done programmatically. There could be another reason, like price matching, but I doubt that. Of course it is price matching. Says someone who doesn't even know how to format a USENET reply... Stores price match their competition ALL THE TIME. Walmart doesn't need Amazon and Amazon doesn't need Walmart, but they do need to make sure they don't get undercut by the other. That shows a basic lack of understanding about the desire for big corporations to control markets. If not for antitrust law, one big corporation would sell everything we buy. If you don't think that Walmart and Amazon would eagerly cooperate in order to gain even more market share, you are naïve. Most likely, Walmart is threatened by Amazon and has entered into an agreement to have some stuff shipped from Amazon warehouses to Walmart stores. Lots of people still prefer to buy locally for the ability to more easily return an item, and for other reasons. It's a good match of big corporations. -- Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Annie Woughman" anniewoughman hotmail.com Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Subject: OT Walmart in bed with Amazon Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:18:49 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 2 Message-ID: l1san6$po5$1 dont-email.me References: l1q8t7$ekl$2 dont-email.me l1qrpl$icd$1 dont-email.me l1r439$kc5$1 dont-email.me l1r4og$n2b$1 dont-email.me Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:22:14 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2c3ecea0af219f5e7c01aa2756ccbe52"; logging-data="26373"; mail-complaints-to="abuse eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/WBbjE3tkQSCYaW+5mYhji6HCAF916kQU=" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V15.4.3555.308 In-Reply-To: l1r4og$n2b$1 dont-email.me X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 15.4.3555.308 Importance: Normal Cancel-Lock: sha1:OkprDysfiOpVbDXVpzJe9BDbfxw= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: news.eternal-september.org alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:28351 |
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On 9/23/2013 11:34 PM, John Doe wrote:
Sorry, in the Amazon Holmes allergen filter link, you might have to search for the price (88.87) to easily find it in the list. They are all sold by Walmart and by Amazon (officially) for precisely the same price. And there are probably hundreds or thousands more. Not sure, but maybe finding them could be done programmatically. There could be another reason, like price matching, but I doubt that. So... Your theory is that Wal-mart is advertising products that Amazon sells so that they can, when ordered from their own website, buy them retail from Amazon and ship them to their store all for absolutely no margin? |
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Grinder grinder no.spam.maam.com wrote:
John Doe wrote: Sorry, in the Amazon Holmes allergen filter link, you might have to search for the price (88.87) to easily find it in the list. They are all sold by Walmart and by Amazon (officially) for precisely the same price. And there are probably hundreds or thousands more. Not sure, but maybe finding them could be done programmatically. There could be another reason, like price matching, but I doubt that. Your theory is that Wal-mart is advertising products that Amazon sells Both are advertising the same products for precisely the same price. so that they can, when ordered from their own website, Technically speaking, a "website" is computer hardware. Ordering "from a website" is a common accepted definition that doesn't mean what you are suggesting. Things are much more fluid than that. buy them retail from Amazon Buy them retail? That is more semantics that don't apply in this situation. Obviously Amazon would not charge Walmart the same for however many jillion products Walmart buys from Amazon. Do you really think that just because you see the price, that must be the price Amazon charges Walmart? and ship them to their store all for absolutely no margin? They would split the profit. Walmart is good at shipping truckloads of products at a time. Amazon is good at shipping individual products. Walmart has thousands of storefronts, Amazon has none. Walmart doesn't want to lose business to Amazon. As long as "site to store" is a popular option, makes perfect sense for Walmart to enter such a deal with Amazon. If you disagree... Your task is to find examples that are precisely the same price that Walmart does not ship "site to store". |
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OT Walmart in bed with Amazon
This is not uncommon, in fact. Lots of major brick and mortar
stores (including Walmart) advertise products from online merchants. What I'm suggesting is that Walmart and Amazon are doing it covertly. This is like third grade marketing, but... When Walmart sells a product that it shows from another website, of course it gets some of the prophet. |
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OT Walmart in bed with Amazon
"John Doe" wrote in message ... This is not uncommon, in fact. Lots of major brick and mortar stores (including Walmart) advertise products from online merchants. What I'm suggesting is that Walmart and Amazon are doing it covertly. This is like third grade marketing, but... When Walmart sells a product that it shows from another website, of course it gets some of the prophet. And which "prophet" would that be? Noah? Adam? Maybe Isaiah? How about profit? |
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