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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWalmart is going to challenge the Amazon delivery drones:
@delrayser:
Walmart announces plans to deliver your purchases by flying monkey.
Ha!
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Walmart is going to challenge the Amazon delivery drones: (Original Post)
Are_grits_groceries
Dec 2013
OP
Harsh!!, the proposal was walmart customers delivering not monkeys!! - shame on you all!
Jesus Malverde
Dec 2013
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NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)1. At least on amazon I can get towels without a fight.
Flat screen tvs I get, but fights over towels???
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)2. and they will not feed the monkeys enough bananas to live on....
They will recommend that they sell their christmas bananas and cut their bananas into little pieces so they think they are full!
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)5. That's McDonald's monkeys. You know better.
Walmart will put an 18-gallon tote in the employee lunchroom signed "Please donate bananas so our delivery associates can have a merry Christmas."
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)6. DOH! You are absolutely right! I had the wrong monkeys altogether!
those monkeys only get bananas if they work a full shift. Part-timers get diddly-squat!!
CorrectOfCenter
(101 posts)3. The National Luddite Association is accusing Bezos
of declaring a War on Pack Mules.
This is going to get ugly.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)7. Bezos is starting to freak out those Walton Freaks!
He's going to try to make a move on them!
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)4. I think they mean: Flying Monkeys out their asses
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)8. Harsh!!, the proposal was walmart customers delivering not monkeys!! - shame on you all!
Exclusive: Wal-Mart may get customers to deliver packages to online buyers
Wal-Mart Stores Inc is considering a radical plan to have store customers deliver packages to online buyers, a new twist on speedier delivery services that the company hopes will enable it to better compete with Amazon.com Inc.
Tapping customers to deliver goods would put the world's largest retailer squarely in middle of a new phenomenon sometimes known as "crowd-sourcing," or the "sharing economy."
A plethora of start-ups now help people make money by renting out a spare room, a car, or even a cocktail dress, and Wal-Mart would in effect be inviting people to rent out space in their vehicle and their willingness to deliver packages to others.
Such an effort would, however, face numerous legal, regulatory and privacy obstacles, and Wal-Mart executives said it was at an early planning stage.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/28/us-retail-walmart-delivery-idUSBRE92R03820130328
Wal-Mart Stores Inc is considering a radical plan to have store customers deliver packages to online buyers, a new twist on speedier delivery services that the company hopes will enable it to better compete with Amazon.com Inc.
Tapping customers to deliver goods would put the world's largest retailer squarely in middle of a new phenomenon sometimes known as "crowd-sourcing," or the "sharing economy."
A plethora of start-ups now help people make money by renting out a spare room, a car, or even a cocktail dress, and Wal-Mart would in effect be inviting people to rent out space in their vehicle and their willingness to deliver packages to others.
Such an effort would, however, face numerous legal, regulatory and privacy obstacles, and Wal-Mart executives said it was at an early planning stage.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/28/us-retail-walmart-delivery-idUSBRE92R03820130328