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>Considering that technically they have one fulfillment center in every small town Sorry to nitpick with an anecdote, but the closest Walmart to me is over 60
by josefresco 7y ago
>Considering that technically they have one fulfillment center in every small town
Sorry to nitpick with an anecdote, but the closest Walmart to me is over 60 minutes away and I don't live in a small town, just one that rejects/blocks "big box" stores aggressively. Walmart certainly has a lot of stores but not everyone has one just around the corner (thankfully)
- hef19898 7y agoI know what you mean. Not every town can be like the one with maybe 3k inhabitants and 5 Rewe stores I know in Germany. But still, 60 minutes means same day delivery without too much hazzle. An advantage Amazon doesn't have. Disadvantage is the considerably higher fix costs of Walmart and the like. Dropshopping could, theoretically at least in my opinion, provide that geographic reach without adding additional fix costs for a player like Amazon. EDIT: Typo
- josefresco 7y agoAgreed, and 60 minutes away the "Walmart every 20 min rule" applies. What's funny, is our region would welcome an Amazon "fulfillment" center because of the job creation, but Walmart is "evil".
- StevePerkins 7y agoTo counter with an anecdote, I live in a metro area with over 4 million inhabitants, and the nearest Amazon fulfillment center is over 120 minutes away. The bottom line is that Walmart's physical presence in the U.S. absolutely dwarfs that of Amazon... outside of NYC and a couple of mega-urban metropolises, who see Walmart as more "evil" than Amazon because they're in the mindset of still fighting the previous war.
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- cflyingdutchman 7y agoThe stat is that something like 90% of the U.S. population lives within a 15 min drive of a Walmart.
- josefresco 7y agoI guess that means I'm a 10%er! Neat.