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To this day I am still shocked Wal-Mart didn't (and still doesn't) run same day shipping of all of its items in store at prices that beat Amazon's. Not only wo
by tabeth 9y ago
To this day I am still shocked Wal-Mart didn't (and still doesn't) run same day shipping of all of its items in store at prices that beat Amazon's.
Not only would this crush Amazon, but would simultaneously restore Walmart's reputation as the storefront itself could be more minimalist as more of its space would be used mainly for warehousing.
Seriously. Why aren't they doing this? Does it cost a few orders of magnitude higher than I'm thinking? Wal-Mart presumably has tabs on what its inventory at its own stores are (at least the website does). Wal-Mart, at its peak is pretty close to most people's houses. All they really need is a good operational workflow to reduce the amount of time wasted on inefficient deliveries.
- devoply 9y agoWould be trivial for Wal-Mart to do too considering the number of stores they have everywhere. All you need is a few delivery vans, drivers, and software.
- maxerickson 9y agoThey ran an experiment where they tried to pay people to make deliveries. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-walmart-delivery-idUSBRE92R03820130328 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-walmart-delivery-id... They also do offer delivery in some markets: https://grocery.walmart.com/help https://grocery.walmart.com/help Here a local grocery partners with some national backend provider to do deliveries; they estimated demand to be fairly low so there are fairly tight windows on when a particular area will receive deliveries. I imagine the economics are comparable for Walmart. Not a lot of money to make demand delivering a toothbrush, but probably worthwhile to schedule delivery of larger batch orders.