Posted on 02/12/2019 6:51:37 AM PST by z3n
With the exception of a Site to Store pick up order snafu the other day (more the staff prob than Walmart proper), I find they’re much better to shop with.
I can order for store pick and it will be ready in a matter of a few days with zero shipping costs, compared to no less than a week for it to be shipped when I use Amazon’s Free Shipping >$25 option.
Plus it’s easier to make returns in store.
Plus Walmart price matches other retailers, including Amazon.
Walmart pioneered the art of using Chinese suppliers rather than American. I hold a grudge.
Walmart’s heirs are leftists too.
I love Amazon. I don’t care if Stalin runs it.
True and I have bought lot’s of vehicle parts from Amazon. Be careful though, recently I have found the same brand parts cheaper at O’Reilly’s and Summit. So now I shop.
I just boycott the most easily swappable, egregious woke offenders like Ben & Jerry’s and Dick’s.
I find what I want on Amazon (easier search) and then copy and paste the description in Walmart to check the price. Often WM is cheaper and faster. My daughter loves one particular brand of body wash which is $18. a bottle on Amazon, she found the same on the Target website for $6.00. It pays to check.
I have no loyalties.
If I order from a big store like WalMart or Target I'll order online and arrange to pick it up at the store. Saves on shipping (and avoids checkout).
Re: eBAY....
I rarely use since they do not have reviews by those who purchase the product.
Amazon & WalMart, to their credit, allows reviews.
Finally, I have this suspicion that the goods on eBAY are not original but knock-offs.
I was in Walmart yesterday. I bought a tire (Douglas) which is good quality and inexpensive. Unfortunately they added over $30 for services over the basic cost of the tire.
On the other hand, I found a 43 inch, 1080 dpi TV on clearance for only $95. They have clearance on line too but never cut as much as in the store.
Walmart’s heirs are leftists too.
I love Amazon. I don’t care if Stalin runs it.
~~~
This is part of why I posted but I forgot to ask. How do they fall in the spectrum?
I have a vague recollection of walmart backing more conservative politics, but I think that was in the more distant past. The biggest gripe (and it’s a big one) has always been retail of cheap foreign product. But where on Amazon do they push American made products?
Perhaps Walmart isn’t a best case alternative. If not, who is?
BTW, I do shop locally much more frequently than I shop online. However, for some things and for some situations, local isn’t the way to go.
I use Wal-Mart stores regularly, but not their website. Most of my Amazon shopping is used books, but Amazon also offers a much broader selection of items. WalMart.com is poorly organized and awkward to use.
“Perhaps Walmart isn’t a best case alternative”
Returns to / at Wally World cannot be beat ! No question bout that fact..
I have some offbeat interests which leads to the need for offbeat products. I can’t tell you how many times in the last couple of years — since Wally World decided to go head-to-head against Bezos — that I’ve done a generic search for something quirky (on duckduckgo or startpage or similar) and discovered that not only did Walmart online offer it, they had the best price. Most offer free home shipping and most of the rest ship free to my local Wally World.
In the early 2000s, ebay was THE place to go for hard to find items. Their sellers (auctions) were more geared toward second hand/used items, and I don’t think they ever overcame that perception even though they set up “Buy it now” and shop style selling.
Both Walmart and E-bay were poised in the early 2000’s to become the greatest online retailers in the world, but missed their boat and let some online bookstore take the mantle. Walmart already had the distribution centers, logistics experience, and their own product too but failed to exploit the online market. Ebay already have a very strong online niche, but got in bed with paypal which limited purchasing avenues aand never shifted successfully to shopping cart style buying.
“Walmart’s web site is not as easy to use as Amazon’s. But they seem to have a a good selection of stuff!”
Walmart should replace its IT people, who fail at inventory replacement and have a hard to order from Web site.
Having said that, Walmart sometimes has incredible deals on some excellent merchandise that is not stocked in the stores. It is in their warehouse and often in the store’s warehouse and not carried as a floor stock item.
We got a Dyson upright vacuum cleaner at about $150 less than competition. We had to order online and then pickup at the store. It was an in store item not stocked in their stocking area. I picked it up, 2 hours after placing the order.
Similar deals were available on name brand microwaves and high end kitchen pots/pans.
Also, we are buying more from Costco online. Again, ordering from them is not as easy as from Amazon Prime. You often have one or more items missing from the order and nothing about that via email or on the shipping invoice. There is no number or email to contact. After a few days, the items show up.
My wife is a Bed, Bath and Beyond “Prime”customer, and she gets great deals with basically free shipping after a small minimum purchase. Delivery is fast, often within a couple of days. However, you get zero emails telling you when to expect a delivery.
95% of our local stores are owned by liberals, and they are staffed with dumb arrogant teens or illegals, who can’t or won’t speak English. The other 5% are main street liberals or GOP’es.
I hate Target and have ordered for my wife. She does that now, with her new Acer 10 inch Chrome book. If you go on line, you will get about 2-5 spam emails from them per day. Their web site is like walking into a mine field. Your search items are seldom listed after your search. They spam you there too.
I pretty much gave up on Wal-Mart.com when I ordered something thru their site from one of their “providers” and received the wrong item. The provider wouldn’t return my calls or emails. I contacted Wal-Mart...couldn’t even get thru. I even got PayPal involved...they were helpful, but still couldn’t get the item switched out or a refunded. Luckily, the wrong item was something that I liked (a $55 Kershaw knife), so I “lived” with it. I just don’t trust Wal-Mart.com now.
I always search walmart first and have order several/many things there. Always satisfied.
Summit has done ok. Same with O’Reilly.
Walmart.com is great. It is a little cumbersome not as slick as Amazon. Shipping is just as fast ans some prices are a LOT lower. Amazon has a habit of buying out the cheap sellers and reselling at a much higher price. Good luck...
Lots of stuff can be picked up at your local Wally for no shipping charge.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.