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That's shockingly stupid. I also worked for a major Walmart IT services vendor in another life, and we always had to be careful about how we handled them, becau

That's shockingly stupid. I also worked for a major Walmart IT services vendor in another life, and we always had to be careful about how we handled them, because they didn't always show a lot of respect for vendors. On another note, thanks for building some awesome stuff -- walmart.com is awesome. I have both Prime and whatever-they're-currently-calling Walmart's version and I love that Walmart doesn't appear to mix SKU's together in the same bin which seems to cause counterfeiting fraud at Amazon.

gnat 5y ago
What's a "bin" in this context?
- AfterAnimator 5y ago
  I believe he means a literal bin. E.g. Amazon takes products from all their sellers and chucks them in the same physical space, so they have no idea who actually sold the product when it's picked. So you could have gotten something from a dodgy 3rd party seller that repackages broken returns, etc, and Amazon doesn't maintain oversight of this.
- notinty 5y ago
  Literally just a bin in a fulfillment warehouse. An amazon listing doesn't guarantee a particular SKU.
  - gnat 5y ago
    Ah, whew. That's what I thought. Thanks! I asked because we make warehouse and retail management systems and every vendor or customer seems to give every word their own meanings (e.g., we use "bin" in our discounts engine to be a collection of products eligible for discounts, and "barcode" has at least three meanings depending on to whom you're speaking).
throwawayHN378 5y ago
Is WalMart.com awesome?
temp6363t 5y ago
walmart.com user design sucks. My particular grudge right now is - I'm shopping to go pickup some stuff (and indicate "in store pickup) and each time I search for the next item, it resets that filter making me click on that filter for each item on my list.
- muvb00 5y ago
  Walmart.com, Am I the only one in the world who can't view their site on my phone? I tried it on a couple devices and couldn't get it to work. Scaling is fubar. I assumed this would be costing them millions/billions since it's impossible to buy something from my phone right now. S21+ in portrait on multiple browsers.
- handrous 5y ago
  Almost every physical-store-chain company's website makes it way too hard to do the thing I nearly always want out of their interface, which is to search the inventory of the X nearest locations. They all want to push online orders or 3rd-party-seller crap, it seems.
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  - lotsofpulp 5y ago
    Yes, I assume they intentionally make it difficult to push third party sellers’ where they get to earn bigger profit margins and/or hide their low inventory. Although, Amazon is the worst, then Walmart (still much better than Amazon since you can at least filter). The others are not bad in my experience.

gnat 5y ago

What's a "bin" in this context?

AfterAnimator 5y ago
I believe he means a literal bin. E.g. Amazon takes products from all their sellers and chucks them in the same physical space, so they have no idea who actually sold the product when it's picked. So you could have gotten something from a dodgy 3rd party seller that repackages broken returns, etc, and Amazon doesn't maintain oversight of this.
notinty 5y ago
Literally just a bin in a fulfillment warehouse. An amazon listing doesn't guarantee a particular SKU.
- gnat 5y ago
  Ah, whew. That's what I thought. Thanks! I asked because we make warehouse and retail management systems and every vendor or customer seems to give every word their own meanings (e.g., we use "bin" in our discounts engine to be a collection of products eligible for discounts, and "barcode" has at least three meanings depending on to whom you're speaking).

throwawayHN378 5y ago

Is WalMart.com awesome?

temp6363t 5y ago

walmart.com user design sucks. My particular grudge right now is - I'm shopping to go pickup some stuff (and indicate "in store pickup) and each time I search for the next item, it resets that filter making me click on that filter for each item on my list.

muvb00 5y ago
Walmart.com, Am I the only one in the world who can't view their site on my phone? I tried it on a couple devices and couldn't get it to work. Scaling is fubar. I assumed this would be costing them millions/billions since it's impossible to buy something from my phone right now. S21+ in portrait on multiple browsers.
handrous 5y ago
Almost every physical-store-chain company's website makes it way too hard to do the thing I nearly always want out of their interface, which is to search the inventory of the X nearest locations. They all want to push online orders or 3rd-party-seller crap, it seems.
- deleted 5y ago
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- lotsofpulp 5y ago
  Yes, I assume they intentionally make it difficult to push third party sellers’ where they get to earn bigger profit margins and/or hide their low inventory. Although, Amazon is the worst, then Walmart (still much better than Amazon since you can at least filter). The others are not bad in my experience.