“Amazon Whole Foods vs Walmart SuperCenters.”
There’s an enormous cost...and quality difference in those two establishments.
And you can bet Bezos will leverage the Amazon logistics network to give Walmart a serious scare on price.
Ultimately, both companies are logistics companies with a customer service front end. And logistics are all about computers, networks and software.
Advantage Amazon. They have that 100X over Walmart. Half the friggin’ internet goes into and out of Amazon. They are also the largest cloud hosting company in the world.
It appears only government force can stop them from becoming the only retail company in the world.
Ultimately, both companies are logistics companies with a customer service front end. And logistics are all about computers, networks and software.
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For many years Walmart was the largest private user of technology in the world. Sam Walton was no country bumpkin and in a way, Walmart was the Amazon of its day.