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Walmart+ (Amazon Prime for Walmart)
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I’ve heard of it and it certainly looks quite compelling. I feel like this is just the beginning for Walmart as they finally join in the online subscription battle against amazon and the other online retailers. This could be what ultimately saves Walmart as a company from eventually being swallowed up by the likes of amazon. Who knows, maybe in the next five years we’ll be seeing Walmart Music and Walmart TV. Anything is possible in the world we’re living in these days.
Walmart is definitely all in now as a competitor of Amazon, and hang the tag to their balance sheet in the shorter run. You can tell just by their efforts at outbuilding during the pandemic. While Amazon has introduced stuff like "Prime Day Delivery" to consolidate --sometimes with an incentive to settle for the delay-- what was previously two-day or next-day order delivery, supposedly for our convenience,,,, Walmart has gone all out to make good on two-day delivery promises, shipping pieces of an order from all over the map (even during goods shortages due to covid-19) since they have not yet completed expansion of their warehouse and hub shipping points.
As a customer of both Walmart and Amazon Prime, and a user of Instacart as well, I'm lately more impressed by Walmart and Instacart, frankly. That's from viewpoint of getting what I want more or less when I want it and in good condition when it gets here. Of course I cut some slack due to supply chain pressures during the covid-19 pandemic. And I have to say that the couriers FedEx and UPS have performed well too.
From a longer lens take on it all, the competition clearly puts pressure on all these outfits (and on other competitors of Instacart), and so I wonder more and more about the pass-through effects on the employees of these firms.
We live in an era where labor is figured more or less just a cost of doing business and so not very different to raw materials inventory. But the problem these behemoths have to reckon with is that the very labor costs they try to minimize represent people... human beings with family and friends... so a large part of their customer base as well. It remains to be seen how much of a squeeze on labor actually serves the longer term bottom line of these corporations. It's part of the fragility of our overall economy.
As a customer of both Walmart and Amazon Prime, and a user of Instacart as well, I'm lately more impressed by Walmart and Instacart, frankly. That's from viewpoint of getting what I want more or less when I want it and in good condition when it gets here. Of course I cut some slack due to supply chain pressures during the covid-19 pandemic. And I have to say that the couriers FedEx and UPS have performed well too.
From a longer lens take on it all, the competition clearly puts pressure on all these outfits (and on other competitors of Instacart), and so I wonder more and more about the pass-through effects on the employees of these firms.
We live in an era where labor is figured more or less just a cost of doing business and so not very different to raw materials inventory. But the problem these behemoths have to reckon with is that the very labor costs they try to minimize represent people... human beings with family and friends... so a large part of their customer base as well. It remains to be seen how much of a squeeze on labor actually serves the longer term bottom line of these corporations. It's part of the fragility of our overall economy.
We’ll see. Amazon includes Prime Video plus shipping and was the one who transfirmed the mail delivery landscape, 1-2 day shipping and often free no conditions returns. It’s a high bar to match.
Additional point: Vudu is owned by Walmart, so they've already got a movie/TV buying/rental/streaming service, and I wouldn't be surprised to see some perks from W+ cross over into Vudu (like move some ad free content to W+ subs).
I have actually used Walmart for a few things, with the free shipping, it was actually cheaper than Amazon for this particular product. This isn't always the case though. Amazon is still pretty good with pricing plus shipping.
I have not heard of Walmart + though. IF the price is right and they offer something very similar to Amazon, with how high Prime is getting, might be time to jump ship.
I have not heard of Walmart + though. IF the price is right and they offer something very similar to Amazon, with how high Prime is getting, might be time to jump ship.
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I've ordered from Walmart a few times in the past. My only complaint was some items we needed were pickup or sold in stores only, which really defeats the purpose of their website. Now if those are available to ship with this membership, I don't see why we wouldn't try it out for a year or six months if they offer a monthly fee.
I get rid of most of our boxes by turning them into temporary pots that I can then place directly into the soil. Also making a slurry and molding containers like those cardboard based cups you get at Home Depot. Costs less, even far less than buying them in bulk.
I usually buy my gardening supplies in bulk from companies who offer it. This is cheaper, but somewhat labor intensive. To make my weird tangent short, I'd prefer to order when I can versus go out to a store just to limit my exposure.
I get rid of most of our boxes by turning them into temporary pots that I can then place directly into the soil. Also making a slurry and molding containers like those cardboard based cups you get at Home Depot. Costs less, even far less than buying them in bulk.
I usually buy my gardening supplies in bulk from companies who offer it. This is cheaper, but somewhat labor intensive. To make my weird tangent short, I'd prefer to order when I can versus go out to a store just to limit my exposure.
Wonder if they will build their own delivery system too. Since Amazon went nearly full self deliveries, it is so much better. The few times UPS does one, they mess something up half the time. Sometimes a package from Amazon delivered by them will be at the door before I go to work in the morning. And once I get the notification my package is X stops away, it sure as heck will be there soon. None of the UPS "in your area" nonsense for like 4+ hours
It is released today!
www.cnn.com
Officially availaible Sept. 15th.
Not impressed.
Walmart unveils $98-a-year subscription service
Walmart on Tuesday unveiled a subscription service that will go toe-to-toe with Amazon Prime.
Officially availaible Sept. 15th.
Not impressed.
shopping it turning out like streaming services, more and more pop up trying to real you in
Looks like Walmart is trying something new. Looks interesting.
I will not let them inside though everything will be delivered to outside my front door.
Walmart+ Membership | Free 30-Day Trial
Walmart InHome saves you time & money by bringing a wide selection of fresh groceries straight to your fridge, even when you're not home
inhome.walmart.com
I will not let them inside though everything will be delivered to outside my front door.
Yeah that is a big "Nope" from me too. Sorry, I don't trust people.
I agree that why I would only use it for people placing orders outside my front door and picking up returns outside my front door.
They want something for nothing, it’s the reason why tens (hundreds?) of millions of jobs went to Asia from the West and most likely they have calculated that cost savings trumps a cannibalized, weakened market, they collectively created.
There is a psychology I saw when I worked on the labor side of the equation, you labor cost too much, we management are worth the expense, because we are the brain, with a minimization that innovative intelligence lives outside management’s brain, and a happy productive labor means something significant, it is what makes a company not only successful, but functional. I like to think about a company as an organism, it’s as if the brain, thinks that it deserves 95% of the O2 and the rest of the body can get by with what’s left.
It’s really bad in the small business realm with business plans depending on slave wages with the owners living the good life and the workers barely staying afloat. Of course we have have all been conditioned to relatively low product cost, and will complain as things like fast food get more expensive, but we have to pick our priorities.
Which takes me back to the idea that imo Capitalism will not continue to be functional for the majority or for society in a future of automation. If companies can mostly jettison the work force for automation there will be an unimaginable strain, that will cause something in our economies to bend, break, or adapt.
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Yeah, I'm not going to let a complete stranger come into my house and put stuff into my fridge.
I can say, downloading the app and signing in has saved us some money. If you ever shop at Wal-Mart, make sure you have the app. We found out if you go to the store and while you are shopping, the price on the app can, and has been, cheaper, sometimes there is a big price cut via the app. When you go to check out, let the person know and show them via the app the price differences and they will do the price adjustment on the spot. We saved over $50 dollars on an item... No hassle and no issue, showed them the scanned price and the clerk took off the amount.
