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   feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 23:51:09 JST feld
   I can order half the stuff I would get from Amazon (without Prime) on Walmart's site and get free shipping because I have the Walmart program where they'll also deliver groceries etc to me for free
   
   TBH the Walmart delivery thing is a ridiculously good deal, it's like $100/yr and you'll blow more on gasoline and life dissolved in the fabric of reality known as "highway traffic" if you shop frequently enough
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 23:51:31 JST Christmas Sun

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     @feld I love it. Some things like meat are garbage from wal-mart but I just buy that separately
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 23:52:37 JST feld

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     @sun Oh god do not trust them to pick out meat (except like ground beef). They're usually OK at not fucking up produce selections
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 23:53:46 JST Christmas Sun

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     @feld I have a separate place for meat that is really good
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     NonPlayableClown (nonplayableclown@postnstuffds.lol)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 00:06:56 JST NonPlayableClown

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     I would 100% not trust them with any perishable products.
     Either stuff leaks out, or is just too warm.
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 00:11:07 JST Christmas Sun

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     @feld @7666 amazon still ranked higher but sort of close. I don't know what "selected brands" means though. I just remembered that amazon used to brag about ranking number one in _all_ companies in the USA in satisfaction multiple years in a row in some survey
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 00:11:08 JST feld

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     @7666 in the Great Corpo Wars of this generation I'm unironically rooting for Walmart to destroy Amazon and believe me, they will. Walmart is not stupid. They have a far better logistics network setup than Amazon does.
     
     Half of Amazon's success is that they rode the coattails of UPS/FedEx
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     7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 00:11:09 JST 7666

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     @feld this doesn't work if you just don't go to wally mart
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     Account: Stuff (stuff@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 00:58:02 JST Account: Stuff

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     • Christmas Sun
     @sun @feld @7666 From consumer's perspective, Walmart is trying to undercut on price. But everything else about them is a significantly worse. Their product search is the worst thing ever. Not like Amazon is super great, but it certainly is the case that I have to spend significantly more time filtering through the garbage at Walmart. In the end, the only thing that I found in WalMart is 250 packs of Kraft 6x9 envelopes. The only thing! And I try every time!
     
     One other thing, I favor heavily products sold my Amazon. If that is not available, I get those shipped by Amazon. And I take a significant price penalty, or go without, for products that are listed at Amazon, but sold and shipped by 3rd party sellers. But at Walmart, it's essentially impossible to find or favor anything sold by Walmart. It's basically eBay at this point. But unlike eBay, there's no trust system.
     
     I don't want to go full Pauline Kael on this. My use pattern may be abnormal. Perhaps hundreds of millions of shoppers just go to Google, then order the lowest price product. In which case Walmart will drive a higher volume. But I'm not at all certain that it's the case.
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