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Wal-Mart and Amazon: Price Wars Reopen Question of Intermediaries

Who employs more people in your town? The little mom and pop shops with the inflated prices or the Walmart? Walmart is also one stop shopping. Nobody is forcing you to buy inferior goods. That's the big picture.


On Oct 18 09:50 AM wn98nec wrote:

> People are looking at this from a very narrow viewpoint. Yes, we
> all like the cheap prices at Walmart. However, look at all the family
> businesses that Walmart has put out of business. How rich does
> the Walmart family need to get? I also find that a big part of
> what Walmart sells is junk! Their rebounder prices were cheap, but
> the were also junk. They broke very easy. Haven'tchecked them recently.
> Walmart used to sell only American? Now, most of their merchandise
> is junk made in foreign countries. I like to save money, but at
> what price? Walmart is another way to destroy American family businesses.
> Smaller, quality businesses that cannot compete with the giant.
> Are we better now than we were before Walmart???

Wal-Mart and Amazon: Price Wars Reopen Question of Intermediaries

It seems like Uncle Wally is looking out for the country, not Uncle Sammy. God Bless Sam Walton.

Walmart Launches Walmart Marketplace

Scot: I think you are missing a key point about limited inventory. Almost all of these products are housed at the manufacturers location. All any of these merchants do is drop ship items from the manufacturer. Therefore you have a commodity item once you know the UPC number. So if Walmart, Amazon or anyone else is not putting some kind of a warranty or backing up the product why buy it from them? An example of a different kind of retailer would be Costco, who allows you to return whatever you buy via their website back to one of their stores if you are not happy. (90 day limits on TV's & Computers). You shouldn't buy anything online without asking yourself the question "What if I have to return it?"

A Sudden Appetite for Web Based Computers

Sydney: You mention Microsoft as benefiting from Netbook Computers. This is not true. Microsoft software is a resources hog, especially in memory but also requiring 4-8GB hard drive space or more just for the operating system. Most of the netbooks use solid state hard drives and microsoft operating systems burp and choke on them. The real winner in the netbook arena is Linux Software and especially Ubuntu (free software package that includes Open Office). These Linux software packages can run very well on as little as 512mb memory and a 4gb solid state(ssd) drive. The low overhead and free software make a perfect marriage for netbooks.

Amazon to Buy Netflix? Microsoft Is a Much Better Guess as a Potential Acquirer

Boaz: What's one more tax in NY? Thank God I don't live there or in California.


On Jul 14 10:19 AM Boaz Berkowitz wrote:

> Due to new interpretations of the law by NY State, Amazon already
> has begun to charge NY Sales tax even though it has no physical presence
> there. Other states are considering to follow suit with similar
> re-interpretations of the tax law. If so, Amazon may be required
> to charge sales tax in all 50 states regardless of a Netflix deal.
> So the tax considerations maybe not be as large an issue as you think,
> at least not enough to disregard the idea. More on this can be
> found here:
>
> seekingalpha.com/artic...

Amazon to Buy Netflix? Microsoft Is a Much Better Guess as a Potential Acquirer

You are absolutely right about Amazon. That would mean they would have to start collecting State Sales tax on every item sold, that ships in a State where Netflix even has one office. In this case they have distribution centers almost everywhere in the US. It would end up costing Amazon money and lost business. Very insightful article.