Video Case study- Walmart

Group 1

Anu Raj
Nakul Shriranga Kulkarni
Mohammed Yasin Kunda
Gustavo Paz
Victor Daniel Uchida

Conestoga College
Fall 2023
1. Why did Walmart acquire Jet.com?

Walmart is trying to close the gap in online revenue, last year, their revenue was 14b, and
Amazon’s revenue was 90b. Jet.com can help them improve their revenue because it has a
unique fulfillment process, and also has a lot of millennials and urbanites, an area that
Walmart is weak on, they are a nimble organization in terms of experimenting with new
ideas, like saving money if customers pay with a debit card or if they refuse the right to
return an item, Jet.com is ahead of Amazon in some respects.

2. How does Jet.com’s fulfillment process work?

Jet.com Customers can save money if they ad more items to their cart, less than a third of
their orders come from their own warehouses, they have over 2000 partners, and
depending on where the orders are coming from, that will determine the final price to the
customer and the shipping cost in real-time.

4.What are some of the omni-channel efforts Walmart is employing?

Yes, the stock analyst is very positive about the long-term perspectives of Walmart. As we
can see Walmart has invested 3.3 billion Dollars to take the huge market share in
ecommerce. The giant competitor amazon has a huge market share in the current market,
and Walmart wants to reduce the huge gap between Walmart and amazon by buying the e-
commerce company Jet.com. According to data available, on 8/5/2019 the share price of
Walmart Inc was $108.00, and on 11/6/2023 the share price is $163. (Yahoo finance, 2023)

5. What competitive advantage does Walmart have vis a vis Amazon?

Wal-Mart's extensive physical network is its main competitive advantage over Amazon.
Taking the U.S. market alone into account, most customers in the country can easily access a
Wal-Mart store, and these locations stock a large portion of what is sold on Amazon.
Additionally, Wal-Mart is concentrating on introducing new technology to improve the
effectiveness of its distribution network. The store network has given Walmart an advantage
with services like curb side grocery pickup available at 2100 locations, they can further
expand it by simply adding kiosks to store parking lots, unlike Amazon, which has to build
such facilities from scratch. Walmart's stores can further assist the company's e-commerce
distribution and support services like buying online/pick-up in-store.

6. Are the stock analysts in the second video positive or negative about Walmarts long-
term prospects?

Yes, the stock analyst is very positive about the long-term perspectives of Walmart. As we
can see Walmart has invested 3.3 billion Dollars to take the huge market share in
ecommerce. The giant competitor amazon has a huge market share in the current market,
and Walmart wants to reduce the huge gap between Walmart and amazon by buying the e-
commerce company Jet.com. According to the data available, on 8/5/2019 the share price of
Walmart Inc was $108.00, and on 11/6/2023 the share price is $163. (Yahoo finance, 2023)

References
Yahoo finance. (2023). Retrieved from finance.yahoo:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WMT/analysis?p=WMT