I recently ordered some junk food from Amazon, despite my wife’s objections. I ordered it from an Amazon Market (aka third party) seller since that was the choice picked by Amazon for one-click ordering.
The food arrived, and the interesting thing is that it arrived in a Walmart box, with a Walmart packing slip. Evidently, someone savvy recognized that the Walmart price was lower than the Amazon price, and undercut Amazon’s price using Walmart as the fulfillment. I was pretty annoyed to have been caught by this, but at the same time I have to respect that they pulled this off, and that I got the food cheaper than if they hadn’t done this.
Anyway, just thought that it is interesting that people are out there doing this!
One response to “Amazon-Walmart arbitrage”
There’s a Planet Money episode on that: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/09/14/493810206/episode-724-cat-scam
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