Can Walmart Finally Take on Amazon Prime Day?

by: LDWCallsOut

I don't currently know anyone who buys from Wal-Mart.  Oh, and I have no idea who any of those celebrities are.

Personally, I can't imagine PAYING any merchant monthly to maybe save money a couple of times per year.  The places I shop online have amazing sales more often than that, often with free shipping, and I don't have to ''pay to play''.  

by: GetAGrip

Taking a trip to walmart is like going to a swap meet in China.  All their stock looks like it just came out of storage container where it was shoved 5 years ago.   Nasty smelling stuff.

@LDW   We pay for Prime everyyear and would never consider dropping it.  Look at it this way.  We live in the country 10 miles from the nearest gas station, 21 miles from a grocery store.  You have to travel 40 miles to even get close to a major city.  There are millions of us who enjoy not having to put up with the nonsense you find in the cities and are perfect happy living in the country.  Amazon prime is a god sent way for us to buy without having to pay 4.50 a gallon to rummage though some garbage at the mall.  We are retired and there are a 8 people who live around us.  One prime account works just fine for all of us.  Our orders go in on Wednesdays and usually are delivered on Thursday with very few exceptions.  I can guarantee  that piddey  139.00 that we paid for prime was used up the first month we had it.  In fact the only time we need to venture into a grocery store is for dog and cat food.  All our vegetables are grown and canned by us.  Milk comes from our cows and goat.  Meat comes from our stock.  I'm willing to bet we live better than most people as we have learned to sustain ourselves without all the poisons you find in your store bought garbage.  Yes we love the country,  the peace and quite,  where two cars on the same road constitute a traffic jam.  Amazon prime is a big deal for us.

by: CenTex

I don't do Amazon, but I shop Walmart.com all the time. Many vendors that sell on Amazon sell on Walmart.com. I do my search then drill down to the best price, it arrives at my door quickly and by checking out with my Walmart credit card I get 5% cash back on EVERY online purchase. I live out of town, the nearest town is 22 miles one way, city is 45 - won't buy fuel anywhere but in town - it's at least 50 cents a gallon higher on the highway than in town.
While I don't live on a farm I do have a garden - this year I added 4 raised beds, bought through Walmart for half the cost from a speciality retailer.  I also have a greenhouse and many items - racks, circulating water cooler, potting table was purchased via Walmart - name brand items too.
And I'd like to add I don't pay shipping on ANYTHING - my order just needs to be $35 or more and it ships free. I have never paid a ''membership'' fee either.  That 5% cash back adds up, better than one can get on your savings at the bank.
About Amazon, a couple of years ago I found an item I thought I wanted to buy so I put it in my cart, Amazon automatically added the prime fee.  When I removed the item the prime fee was still in my cart, it took many hoops to jump through to get it removed.  Due to this I closed the account.  With Walmart they do not automatically add the fee to your cart, you must physically check the box for it to be added. Just my experience, each of us has to do what we feel is best.

by: Queen of the Jungle

With the cost of gas and fuel today, I would guess that any service that lets people avoid driving will do very well.

I agree with the others who posted their stories.  Same here except I live in a more suburban area and can no longer stand to live shop in Walmart.  Too many disgusting freaks, many of whom should have never been allowed in the store in the first place.

by: LDWCallsOut

Before I moved to the area where I live now, my late husband and I lived in a county with just 20K residents.  The nearest big box stores were in the next county (a minimum 50-mile round trip).  Unless you were planning to be a bridesmaid or go to a high school formal dance there was no women's clothing in the county (men and children's clothes, yes).  We relied on our FAX machine and catalogs, the 1990s equivalent of Amazon.  

I've been catalog shopping since maybe 1980 when I got tired of seeing the same items at all the mall department stores (the old school ones like Bamberger's  Gimbels, Wanamaker's, and Strawbridge's where you don't push a cart).  Some of the brands I buy online have a smallish presence on Amazon, but have limited sizes and colors -- and higher prices, too.  My special needs kitty eats a prescription diet, but the food on Amazon costs up to 50 percent more than any of the home delivery pet supply sites.  That's just crazy.  No one buys expensive cat food because they want to.  Sure, I can afford the Amazon price, but why would I?  I'd rather donate the difference to local (human) food banks and the Humane Society.

Wal-Mart never impressed me positively.  I've been in two stores, and they were a mess (dirty and disorganized) compared to their 1990s competitors K-Mart and Jamesway. I like a bargain, like everyone else, but Wal-Mart is just not for me.