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I shop on both websites every week. I spend about $150/week in one order on Walmart.com, primarily food. I sporadically buy from Amazon, but place over 200 or
by htag 4y ago
I shop on both websites every week. I spend about $150/week in one order on Walmart.com, primarily food. I sporadically buy from Amazon, but place over 200 orders a year.
For the first thing, if a product can be delivered from my local Walmart to my house within a few hours I feel like it has reached a much higher quality bar Amazon. Walmart put a lot of effort picking items to put on their shelfs. Much more than Amazon, or things that are shipped to you over days on Walmart.com. Both have good return policies, but returning to an actual store is easier.
I rarely purchase something from the front page of Amazon, but often purchase from the front page of Walmart. I find using amazon to find anything but very specific products to be a complete waste of time. All categories and subcategories are overfilled with look-a-like products, and is just spam to search through. The types of things Amazon recommends are almost exclusively things I have already looked, or something I have absolutely zero interest in.
Walmart's recommendation system is powerful at getting me to make smaller purchases. A lot of it is because of the repeat purchase nature of groceries. It knows I've bought my favorite type of orange juice 12 times, it shows me the orange juice, and I buy it again. It's also good at getting me to buy things I have never bought before. Walmart has categories that are good for browsing. If I type in "cookie" I get a wide selection of cookies, and can find something I want to eat. When I visited the home page there was a large selection called "Patio and Garden". I just realized I would probably like to do some gardening, and will buy supplies from walmart.com later.
- silisili 4y agoI could have written the same comment, word for word. Walmart completely blows away Amazon for shipping most things I buy. Further, while obviously not typically known as a bastion of quality, the items I get from Walmart are of higher quality than those on Amazon, in aggregate. Put another way, they don't carry a lot of the junk and misleading products that AMZ does. Speaking to your last point, I love that it orders searches intelligently. If I search for 'cookie', the top result is the one my wife likes, and it tells me how many times I've purchased it. This helps so much in that I don't have to remember brands and such anymore, they do it for me. If it wasn't blindingly clear, I'm a huge fan of everything they're doing online over the last couple years, and get immensely more value out of Walmart+ than Prime.