OT Walmart in bed with Amazon

[John Doe]

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.

 

[Hench]

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?

 

[John Doe]

John Doe wrote:

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-20000...9994711&sr=1-1&keywords=coleman+quickbed+twin

You might have to select "twin" in the "Size" drop-down box.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Coleman-2000010284-Twin-Air-Mattress/21783654

COLEMAN 4-IN-1 QUICKBED TWIN/KING

http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-4-in-...9994967&sr=1-3&keywords=coleman+quickbed+twin

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Coleman-4-N-1-QuickBed/21914207

HOLMES TRUE HEPA ALLERGEN REMOVER

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...ifier&rh=i:aps,k:The+Holmes+True+Air+Purifier

http://www.walmart.com/ip/True-HEPA-Allergen-Remover-by-Holmes/9189154

 

[John Doe]

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.

 

[Annie Woughman]

"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.

 

[John Doe]

"John Doe" wrote in message 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.










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[John Doe]

John Doe wrote:

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".

 

[John Doe]

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.

 

[Annie Woughman]

"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?

 

[John Doe]

This thing doesn't know how to format a USENET post, and it is
criticizing me for a simple speech recognition error.

In the context of the sentence it was used in, listen to how the
word "prophet" sounds without paying attention to the spelling.
And ye shall be enlightened...