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Walmart has the same marketplace concept and shares many of the same vendors as Amazon. Best Buy and B&H have most of my business now. Other than Prime shippin

Walmart has the same marketplace concept and shares many of the same vendors as Amazon. Best Buy and B&H have most of my business now. Other than Prime shipping, everyone has caught up on price.

gruez 5y ago
You do realize best buy also has a "marketplace"?
- tomnipotent 5y ago
  I'm unable to find any evidence of this on the U.S. website, and nothing but a few links to Canadian resources otherwise.
  - gruez 5y ago
    You're right, it seems to be specific to the .ca website.
    - tomnipotent 5y ago
      I was really panicked for a second. Complete denial, skipped straight to the anger phase. Best Buy has honestly been such a refreshing experience the last few years, now that Newegg is less and less an option. It's one of the few stores I still physically visit just to browse, with no specific purchasing goal in mind. It's how I ended up with a Philips Hues light setup and I'm actually very happy with it.
      - bserge 5y ago
        What happened to Newegg?
        gruez 5y ago
        they turned into a marketplace.
nope96 5y ago
> Walmart has the same marketplace concept and shares many of the same vendors as Amazon. But Walmart doesn't commingle inventory, as far as I know.
- tomnipotent 5y ago
  I'm unaware of how they handle warehousing and fulfillment for their marketplace, or parallels to Amazon's Fulfilled By (and if that's the end game...). This is definitely a plus.
aceazzameen 5y ago
And Best Buy will sometimes do free same day delivery on specific items shipped from their stores. I was price shopping an air purifier from Amazon and Best Buy earlier this year. When I saw it could be shipped same day from BB, it was a no brainer. Downside is not every item is eligible, and I'm not sure what makes an item eligible.
- tomnipotent 5y ago
  > Best Buy will sometimes do free same day delivery on specific items shipped from their stores Yes! I abuse this a lot, even when it's $9.99. For the first year of my last start-up, I ended up buying from Best Buy a LOT because I wasn't told about new hires until the day of or things just break and you need a same-day replacement. They have this for a lot of their LA stores.

Walmart has the same marketplace concept and shares many of the same vendors as Amazon. Best Buy and B&H have most of my business now. Other than Prime shipping, everyone has caught up on price.

gruez 5y ago

You do realize best buy also has a "marketplace"?

tomnipotent 5y ago
I'm unable to find any evidence of this on the U.S. website, and nothing but a few links to Canadian resources otherwise.
- gruez 5y ago
  You're right, it seems to be specific to the .ca website.
  - tomnipotent 5y ago
    I was really panicked for a second. Complete denial, skipped straight to the anger phase. Best Buy has honestly been such a refreshing experience the last few years, now that Newegg is less and less an option. It's one of the few stores I still physically visit just to browse, with no specific purchasing goal in mind. It's how I ended up with a Philips Hues light setup and I'm actually very happy with it.
    - bserge 5y ago
      What happened to Newegg?
      - gruez 5y ago
        they turned into a marketplace.

nope96 5y ago

> Walmart has the same marketplace concept and shares many of the same vendors as Amazon. But Walmart doesn't commingle inventory, as far as I know.

tomnipotent 5y ago
I'm unaware of how they handle warehousing and fulfillment for their marketplace, or parallels to Amazon's Fulfilled By (and if that's the end game...). This is definitely a plus.

aceazzameen 5y ago

And Best Buy will sometimes do free same day delivery on specific items shipped from their stores. I was price shopping an air purifier from Amazon and Best Buy earlier this year. When I saw it could be shipped same day from BB, it was a no brainer. Downside is not every item is eligible, and I'm not sure what makes an item eligible.

tomnipotent 5y ago
> Best Buy will sometimes do free same day delivery on specific items shipped from their stores Yes! I abuse this a lot, even when it's $9.99. For the first year of my last start-up, I ended up buying from Best Buy a LOT because I wasn't told about new hires until the day of or things just break and you need a same-day replacement. They have this for a lot of their LA stores.