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Wal-Mart in talks to buy Jet

article published on 4 August, 2016

According to the WSJ, giant retailer Wal-Mart is in talks to buy the one-time "Amazon killer," Jet. The move is expected to give Wal-Mart an improved e-commerce solution to better fend off Amazon, which has recently become the largest retailer by market cap. Sources claim Jet could be valued as high as $3 billion, even though it has been unprofitable since launch. Jet launched last ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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_ 		5. August 2016 @ 12:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Jet beat out Amazon on a few things I checked but not by much.......negligible at best.

The Jet.com experience is bland, boring, uneventful and doesn't do well to engage me in anything other than what I specifically came to buy.

Amazon draws me in to other stuff effortlessly.


I always thought Jet was doomed but Walmart buying them should be interesting if not funny.

yet another frivolous venture by fatcats that have so much money to waste and burn in lark ventures that all too often don't pan out and fail.

This will be one of them. I don't see Jet doing ANYTHING for Walmart that they haven't already tried to no avail.
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Mrguss
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_ 		7. August 2016 @ 15:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Amazon get Diapers long time ago and it was their best move ever...buying Jet was just to make sure the Amazon success.
Jet isn't go to nowhere.
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Bryan3404
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_ 		14. August 2016 @ 00:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am not impressed with Jet anyway. I wanted to buy a sound system they had on their website for $250. I waited a day to buy so that I could measure my living room space to make sure it fit. The next day they had jacked up the price to $299.99. There was no way that I was going to pay a $50 mark up in one day. I noticed that Walmart had it cheaper at like $265 and so I messaged the people at Jet to see it they would give it to me for the original price and that Walmart even had it for cheaper. They told me that if Walmart had it for cheaper than to buy it from them. What?? This is not a way to do business. I then saw it on Amazon for $217 and bought it from Amazon.
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