{"id":11280,"date":"2018-11-16T13:10:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11280"},"modified":"2018-11-16T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:10:25","slug":"there-would-be-no-amazon-had-walmart-gone-this-all-out-online-years-ago-ex-target-vice-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/there-would-be-no-amazon-had-walmart-gone-this-all-out-online-years-ago-ex-target-vice-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"There would be no Amazon had Walmart gone this all-out online years ago: Ex-Target vice chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/91575_Walmart02_061917-904x533.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/91575_Walmart02_061917-904x533-300x177.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/91575_Walmart02_061917-904x533-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/91575_Walmart02_061917-904x533-768x453.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/91575_Walmart02_061917-904x533.png 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nImage source &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.g2crowd.com\/blog\/e-commerce-platform\/return-walmart-walmarts-e-commerce-play\/\">https:\/\/blog.g2crowd.com\/blog\/e-commerce-platform\/return-walmart-walmarts-e-commerce-play\/<\/a><\/h6>\n<p><strong>================================================<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_deck\" class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"group-container last\">\n<div class=\"group\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Amazon &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t have grown to the scale it is&#8221; had Walmart invested in online shopping earlier, Gerald Storch says.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Walmart does draw &#8220;strength&#8221; from leveraging brick-and-mortar to compliment its online efforts, he argues.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>CNBC<\/strong><br \/>\nby Tyler Clifford<br \/>\n11\/15\/2018<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"inline_quotes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=WMT\" data-gdsid=\"36809\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"WMT\"><em>Walmart<\/em><\/a><em> has been making huge investments to boost its online shopping operations, but it&#8217;s still &#8220;trying desperately to catch up,&#8221; former <a class=\"inline_quotes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=TGT\" data-gdsid=\"34172\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"TGT\">Target<\/a> Vice Chairman Gerald Storch told CNBC on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If Walmart had made the kind of investments they&#8217;re making today, there would have been no <a class=\"inline_quotes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=AMZN\" data-gdsid=\"9399\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"AMZN\">Amazon<\/a>,&#8221; Storch said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/squawk-alley\/\">&#8220;Squawk Alley.&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For example, Walmart recently paid $16 billion to buy a majority stake in Indian e-commerce company Flipkart. In late 2016, it paid $3 billion for then-startup Jet.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the complete article including video and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/11\/15\/amazon-would-not-exist-had-walmart-gone-online-earlier-gerald-storch.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/11\/15\/amazon-would-not-exist-had-walmart-gone-online-earlier-gerald-storch.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image source &#8212;\u00a0https:\/\/blog.g2crowd.com\/blog\/e-commerce-platform\/return-walmart-walmarts-e-commerce-play\/ ================================================ Amazon &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t have grown to the scale it is&#8221; had Walmart invested in online shopping earlier, Gerald Storch says. Walmart does draw &#8220;strength&#8221; from leveraging brick-and-mortar to compliment its online efforts, he argues. 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