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Jet, based on its promotional content is heavy into the home products category. Walmart would love to knock them out to absorb that competition to getting deliv

Jet, based on its promotional content is heavy into the home products category. Walmart would love to knock them out to absorb that competition to getting delivery and even subscription delivery of home products. So it may be the price Walmart is willing to pay to ensure nobody is making Jet their new source for houseware products and avoiding the WalMart Brand. We also don't know what else Jet has in the pipeline, negotiating with them and through their research may be revealing more to WalMart. all said, I hope Walmart doesn't buy Jet. I want Jet to exist on its own. Competition is the way forward in shopping, if not against Walmart, definitely against Amazon.

Someone1234 10y ago
What surprises me is that in many European countries, you can now order ALL of your groceries delivered. You place an order, and someone physically walks around a local supermarket, picks up stuff, they put on a van, and it is delivered to your home. It is actually very inexpensive (and free if you spend enough). Yet nobody in the US does that (well nobody outside of big cities). Walmart right now today has a HUGE advantage, they can deliver products impossible to Amazon like fresh fruit and veg, meats, and all kinds of things. But yet, do they? No. Walmart already has "warehouses" in every state, city, location. They're called stores. But instead of double dipping on that advantage, they keep using them as traditional retailers while Amazon rules the home delivery advantage. Amazon are currently moving into an area Walmart already has an advantage in (being local) but because Walmart under utilises their advantage to such a large degree, Amazon is left alone to do so.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > What surprises me is that in many European countries, you can now order ALL of your groceries delivered. You can do it in much of the US, too; a number of brick-and-mortar grocery chains offer online ordering home-delivery services, even before considering third-party or online-only grocers.
  - ntpeters 10y ago
    I've lived in multiple states in the past 5-ish years. Nowhere I've lived has had this.
    - BOBOTWINSTON 10y ago
      Omaha has had it for a few years now, not sure which cities you've been in, but we aren't known for being ahead of the curve here.
- shanemhansen 10y ago
  Grocery.walmart.com
- vertex-four 10y ago
  Walmart's brand in the UK - ASDA - provides online shopping with both collection and home delivery services. Not really sure why they don't do it in the US.
- losteverything 10y ago
  Recently went on vacation and used grocery pickup at a Maine grocery store and picked up groceries for the entire week. Awesome service but I asked the lady how many pick ups they did this Sunday and she said 35. and I said what's the most and she said 65 - 70. Grocery pick-up has not caught on yet and grocery delivery I would imagine is even less than that
  - jaegerpicker 10y ago
    I live in Maine, I bet it's Hannaford that you did this with. I use it all the time, in fact I almost never actually into the store anymore if I can avoid it. Not sure I could live with out it any more! :)
  - deftnerd 10y ago
    I have three young kids and it's very difficult to go shopping with them. If they're not causing problems, they're taking up space in the cart. Sometimes when my wife and I go together with the kids, we push one cart with the kids piled in and one cart for the actual groceries. Being able to order our groceries online and have them delivered or picking them up in some kind of drive-through lane is a huge quality of life improvement for families like mine.
- matwood 10y ago
  > What surprises me is that in many European countries, you can now order ALL of your groceries delivered. In the US my local grocery (Harris Teeter) has a service where you order online and go through a drive through to pick up. The cost was $4.95/order or $99/year. They have recently added full delivery for $14.95/order (not sure on the yearly fee). I live in a medium sized city.
  - BOBOTWINSTON 10y ago
    HyVee (Midwest), is free for orders over a $100. Everyone I know without a family just ordered $101.
- zeroonetwothree 10y ago
  This is fairly common in the US as well.
  - ntpeters 10y ago
    Man, I must seriously have been unlucky in the places I've lived so far. Seriously never even heard of this being a thing until reading articles about Instacart and then Amazon Fresh, and thought "wow, wonder why nobody has done this before". Until this thread I still thought those were practically the only ones, and then only in like one or two cities.
- overcast 10y ago
  For packaged things sure, but who wants someone else picking out potentially crummy vegetables/fruit/meats? Do you inspect them while they arrive, and then what about rejecting them? Looking through produce and meats is part of the market shopping process.
- drivingmenuts 10y ago
  > Yet nobody in the US does that (well nobody outside of big cities). Because outside of the big cities, you don't give up a minimum of 2 hours of your daily life just driving to and from work. It wouldn't make sense to have someone take of tasks like that.
- michaelbuddy 10y ago
  one or more shops near me in the U.S. suburbs has delivery. It's inexpensive but to keep it efficient the product range is more narrow. So they wont be getting your particular favorites, the essentials are covered. as somebody else pointed out though inspecting produce for delectability isn't going to be their concern.

Someone1234 10y ago

What surprises me is that in many European countries, you can now order ALL of your groceries delivered. You place an order, and someone physically walks around a local supermarket, picks up stuff, they put on a van, and it is delivered to your home. It is actually very inexpensive (and free if you spend enough). Yet nobody in the US does that (well nobody outside of big cities). Walmart right now today has a HUGE advantage, they can deliver products impossible to Amazon like fresh fruit and veg, meats, and all kinds of things. But yet, do they? No. Walmart already has "warehouses" in every state, city, location. They're called stores. But instead of double dipping on that advantage, they keep using them as traditional retailers while Amazon rules the home delivery advantage. Amazon are currently moving into an area Walmart already has an advantage in (being local) but because Walmart under utilises their advantage to such a large degree, Amazon is left alone to do so.

dragonwriter 10y ago
> What surprises me is that in many European countries, you can now order ALL of your groceries delivered. You can do it in much of the US, too; a number of brick-and-mortar grocery chains offer online ordering home-delivery services, even before considering third-party or online-only grocers.
- ntpeters 10y ago
  I've lived in multiple states in the past 5-ish years. Nowhere I've lived has had this.
  - BOBOTWINSTON 10y ago
    Omaha has had it for a few years now, not sure which cities you've been in, but we aren't known for being ahead of the curve here.
shanemhansen 10y ago
Grocery.walmart.com
vertex-four 10y ago
Walmart's brand in the UK - ASDA - provides online shopping with both collection and home delivery services. Not really sure why they don't do it in the US.
losteverything 10y ago
Recently went on vacation and used grocery pickup at a Maine grocery store and picked up groceries for the entire week. Awesome service but I asked the lady how many pick ups they did this Sunday and she said 35. and I said what's the most and she said 65 - 70. Grocery pick-up has not caught on yet and grocery delivery I would imagine is even less than that
- jaegerpicker 10y ago
  I live in Maine, I bet it's Hannaford that you did this with. I use it all the time, in fact I almost never actually into the store anymore if I can avoid it. Not sure I could live with out it any more! :)
- deftnerd 10y ago
  I have three young kids and it's very difficult to go shopping with them. If they're not causing problems, they're taking up space in the cart. Sometimes when my wife and I go together with the kids, we push one cart with the kids piled in and one cart for the actual groceries. Being able to order our groceries online and have them delivered or picking them up in some kind of drive-through lane is a huge quality of life improvement for families like mine.
matwood 10y ago
> What surprises me is that in many European countries, you can now order ALL of your groceries delivered. In the US my local grocery (Harris Teeter) has a service where you order online and go through a drive through to pick up. The cost was $4.95/order or $99/year. They have recently added full delivery for $14.95/order (not sure on the yearly fee). I live in a medium sized city.
- BOBOTWINSTON 10y ago
  HyVee (Midwest), is free for orders over a $100. Everyone I know without a family just ordered $101.
zeroonetwothree 10y ago
This is fairly common in the US as well.
- ntpeters 10y ago
  Man, I must seriously have been unlucky in the places I've lived so far. Seriously never even heard of this being a thing until reading articles about Instacart and then Amazon Fresh, and thought "wow, wonder why nobody has done this before". Until this thread I still thought those were practically the only ones, and then only in like one or two cities.
overcast 10y ago
For packaged things sure, but who wants someone else picking out potentially crummy vegetables/fruit/meats? Do you inspect them while they arrive, and then what about rejecting them? Looking through produce and meats is part of the market shopping process.
drivingmenuts 10y ago
> Yet nobody in the US does that (well nobody outside of big cities). Because outside of the big cities, you don't give up a minimum of 2 hours of your daily life just driving to and from work. It wouldn't make sense to have someone take of tasks like that.
michaelbuddy 10y ago
one or more shops near me in the U.S. suburbs has delivery. It's inexpensive but to keep it efficient the product range is more narrow. So they wont be getting your particular favorites, the essentials are covered. as somebody else pointed out though inspecting produce for delectability isn't going to be their concern.