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> they divide walmart.com from walmart pickup and delivery for no reason I can hazard an informed guess as to why that is -- they built .com as an independent
by ethbr0 5y ago
> they divide walmart.com from walmart pickup and delivery for no reason
I can hazard an informed guess as to why that is -- they built .com as an independent company, in order to get it off the ground faster and with less interference from the brick and mortar side.
End result: quick iteration, but now two completely separate supply chains. You'd be amazing how complicated warehousing, inventory, shipping, etc. get when you've got 2 SKUs for every item + a bunch of hacks to duct tape everything together.
And it's not trivial to reconverged them, when you're as optimized as Walmart logistics is.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoHomeDepot and Bestbuy are what I would hold up as the best websites. Target is decent too, except they started allowed resellers and I was not as easily able to find how to restrict to items sold only by Target.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoHome Depot is good, but their iOS app still lacks a lot of polish around selecting a store, payments, and list management.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoWhat I also like about Target and Hope Depot is I can put my phone number in when I am checking out at the store, and the purchases will show up in my account online so I can reference them later or not need to keep the physical receipt for returns.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoDefinitely, although I wish Home Depot wouldn’t ask each time about the digital receipt. They should (imho) provide a setting to always receive the digital receipt copy (with the email address associated to a credit card number).
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- cpwright 5y agoHome Depot stores the receipts by credit card; so that if you use a card saved to your online account you automatically will see your in-store purchases show up.
- silisili 5y agoI know I'm starting to sound like a shill, but I'm just impressed with the progress they've made recently... but Walmart does this too. Any in store purchase made with a credit card saved in your account shows up in your purchase history. Don't even need to type in a phone number :). That's actually really new, they emailed about it sometime in the last month and I can confirm it works.
- endisneigh 5y agoI’m genuinely curious - why use the app instead of the website?
- toomuchtodo 5y agoiPhone is always with me, a computer less so. If I’m scanning an item’s barcode to source or add to cart, need a camera on the phone. If I’m looking in aisles for a part, need the phone for aisle and bin #. I remember something while I’m spending time out with the family or running errands? Mobile app. “Mobile first lifestyle.”
- 1123581321 5y agoI use the app over the mobile website because its data requirements are lower and my reception is poor in-store.
- ethbr0 5y agoGood engineering teams working with KISS frameworks build good sites. Counter example: Sears. Resellers are a necessary evil for warehouse retail. You need the scale for margin and product diversity for long tail sales, but you've got to keep a tight leash on them. I can't begin to express how unreliable their submitted metadata about listed items is. I feel like auditing and kicking people off the platform would honestly be the best approach, although that'd probably just cause more fly by night "new" vendor signups.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago> Resellers are a necessary evil for warehouse retail. As long as there is a simple option to not clutter my search results with them, it does not affect me whether or not a retailer also sells their website to resellers.
- monksy 5y agoMenards is great for this. The stores tend to fullfill orders and ship. Also, you have flexibility in how you get it shipped. Also, they tend to show live POS stock counts. (Expect 1 item to be 0 left) They're not the best in shipping.. but I haven't see the garbage resellers on their platform.
- slownews45 5y agoI was bummed about the target third party stuff - how hard is it to add a target only toggle?
- lotsofpulp 5y agoThere is currently a Sold By filter where you can choose Target when I just checked, but it has also not been there so I wonder if they are doing A/B testing or something. Or maybe I missed it.
- floxy 5y ago>HomeDepot and Bestbuy are what I would hold up as the best websites. https://www.mcmaster.com/ https://www.mcmaster.com/
- lotsofpulp 5y agoMcMaster is certainly very nice, but I was considering broad retail businesses with lots of physical locations and lots of variety in items sold.
- mindslight 5y agoTarget was good 5 years ago. These days they're pushing more and more items into "same day delivery" only with some gimmicky subscription service. No thanks - I'm looking for a transaction, not a long term relationship. If you really want to charge for shipping, then reduce your prices so that the cost of shipping is no longer built in. And yeah, the "marketplace" cancer is everywhere. It's turned Amazon into trash, yet traditional companies seemingly can't help but follow in their footsteps. If I want to sort through vendor reputations for gensym-branded white label gadgets, I'll go to eBay or AliExpress. FWIW the Home Depot website is much faster if you use noscript to block all of their surveillance vendors. Probably the worst website I've seen with regards to that - by default I think they backhaul all of your mouse movement.