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They acquired Jet.com years ago. Not sure how much of that infra made it into Walmart, but they definitely made an attempt to be "more tech". Granted that the e
by renegade-otter 3y ago
They acquired Jet.com years ago. Not sure how much of that infra made it into Walmart, but they definitely made an attempt to be "more tech". Granted that the entire Jet project was an acquisition attempt to irritate Amazon - what the founder had done before with diapers.com
- addicted 3y agoI’m pretty sure their online presence was rebuilt by the Jet.com guys. The Jet.com CEO was almost immediately made the head of their digital transformation and took an end to end approach of digitizing everything from the website to their logistics and warehousing.
- anotherhue 3y agoThis is correct. I was there.
- swozey 3y agoOh so Jet was the techy one they brought in that brought that? I had never heard that, interesting. It's got to be terrifying working at a company that gets bought by Walmart. edit: https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2016/08/08/walmart-agrees-to-acquire-jet-com-one-of-the-fastest-growing-e-commerce-companies-in-the-u-s https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2016/08/08/walmart-agrees...
- renegade-otter 3y agoThey were pretty "hardcore". I once went to a meetup there to learn about the Pony language.