It was the wild card category for back-to-school, and it will be the wild card category for the holidays. And even though its margins are razor-thin, both Amazon and Walmart are pushing to capture electronics’ share of the U.S. consumer’s whole paycheck. That paycheck usually...
It was quite a week in the Amazon-Walmart battle for the consumer’s whole paycheck. It started out with what looked to be a definitive date for Prime Day (Oct. 13). Then, the stage went to Walmart, as it announced it would start the holiday season...
The year was 2016. Captain America and Star Wars ruled the movies. Justin Bieber and Drake topped the pop charts. Brexit and the U.S. presidential election dominated the news. And Amazon was trying to break into the fashion business. A sampling of the press coverage...
As they continue their quest to dominate the U.S. consumer’s whole paycheck, Amazon and Walmart took different roads this week. Both focused on their obsession with the all-important “last mile” of the eCommerce experience. Walmart made the more direct claim on the whole paycheck this...
A good bit of the Amazon and Walmart bid for the U.S. consumer’s whole paycheck this week was at the top of the news feed. Amazon plowed ahead into the wearable device market. Walmart teamed up with Microsoft in a bid for TikTok. And that...
It’s not often that Walmart gets upstaged in the world of retail. In fact, Amazon is about the only one who has been capable of doing so, as the reigning offline and online title-holders duke it out for the U.S. consumer’s whole paycheck. But this...
Success breeds imitators, especially when the U.S. consumer’s whole paycheck is at stake. This week saw two major shots across the bow in the battle for said paycheck. One: Walmart teamed up with Instacart to go after the Amazon/Whole Foods portion of the paycheck. Two:...
Another week has gone by, and there’s still no sign of a critical date being set in Amazon’s and Walmart’s battle for Prime customers, in another key avenue to claiming the whole U.S. paycheck. Amazon could have made the announcement of a date for Prime...
If Amazon and Walmart are fighting for the consumer’s whole paycheck, this week’s battle went to Amazon. Decisively, in fact. By any metrics, the company’s earnings were off the charts, and they hardly came as a result of cost-cutting. The company almost doubled its revenue...
