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Toys "R" Us also made the mistake of crawling into bed with Amazon rather than build out their own website for a couple years and let Amazon harvest all the toy

Toys "R" Us also made the mistake of crawling into bed with Amazon rather than build out their own website for a couple years and let Amazon harvest all the toy sales data and then decided not to renew the contract between the two.

bobthepanda 6y ago
To be fair, this worked out for some companies (Target.com was originally Amazon run)
- rhizome 6y ago
  To be even fairer, it's not helping them in the COVID-19 era. In my region, Target is dead last in maintaining inventory and their supply chain. I have given up on them completely for paper products, as they never had any for months and months and...I'm not even sure if they've ever gotten any by this point. It's been a real eye-opener about the Goliaths among us, that however Target is organized, operationally, there's something about them that has absolutely failed over the past 9 months. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, but Walmart is their main competition and they've become, regrettably, my go-to for household supplies. Because they have some. Apologies if this is irrelevant, I've been champing to spell out this rant for a long time.
- amluto 6y ago
  Huh, is that why target.com is so bad? I can’t think of any other e-commerce site that will tell you that, sorry, you can’t order those two items in the same transaction because they use incompatible fulfillment systems.
  - bobthepanda 6y ago
    The target.com partnership ended more than 9 years ago. That being said, the replacement for Amazon fulfillment seems to be a laundry list of older companies; > Prior to the announcement, Target and Amazon had extended their partnership until 2011.[41] In January 2010, Target announced their vendor partners for the re-platforming project. These partners include Sapient, IBM, Oracle, Endeca, Autonomy, Sterling Commerce and Huge, among others.

bobthepanda 6y ago

To be fair, this worked out for some companies (Target.com was originally Amazon run)

rhizome 6y ago
To be even fairer, it's not helping them in the COVID-19 era. In my region, Target is dead last in maintaining inventory and their supply chain. I have given up on them completely for paper products, as they never had any for months and months and...I'm not even sure if they've ever gotten any by this point. It's been a real eye-opener about the Goliaths among us, that however Target is organized, operationally, there's something about them that has absolutely failed over the past 9 months. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, but Walmart is their main competition and they've become, regrettably, my go-to for household supplies. Because they have some. Apologies if this is irrelevant, I've been champing to spell out this rant for a long time.
amluto 6y ago
Huh, is that why target.com is so bad? I can’t think of any other e-commerce site that will tell you that, sorry, you can’t order those two items in the same transaction because they use incompatible fulfillment systems.
- bobthepanda 6y ago
  The target.com partnership ended more than 9 years ago. That being said, the replacement for Amazon fulfillment seems to be a laundry list of older companies; > Prior to the announcement, Target and Amazon had extended their partnership until 2011.[41] In January 2010, Target announced their vendor partners for the re-platforming project. These partners include Sapient, IBM, Oracle, Endeca, Autonomy, Sterling Commerce and Huge, among others.