Marc Lore, the former head of Jet, now leads all of Walmart Global E-commerce.

Jun 17, 2017
2:13:48pm

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You have seen other talent migrate from Jet into the Walmart Global E-commerce leadership ranks, which may give some the impression that Jet is running walmart.com. However, that is not the case.

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Walmart buys Bonobos. Extremely weird fit.

YIsForBrigham MYOB

6/17/17 11:56am

jet.com is handling all the Walmart online stuff

byujacob

6/17/17 11:57am

All? Nope. Walmart acquired jet.com, but in absolutely no way is jet.com handlin

AndyDwyer

6/17/17 12:08pm

Marc Lore, the former head of Jet, now leads all of Walmart Global E-commerce.

CrimWalCoug

6/17/17 2:13pm

It's all part of the e-commerce strategy. In order to ever make any money at e-commerce you need a couple of things.

CrimWalCoug

6/17/17 2:10pm

For some reason I'm very interested in e-commerce

YIsForBrigham

6/17/17 2:24pm

I don't think the branding issues Walmart has are insurmountable for a couple of reasons.

CrimWalCoug

6/17/17 3:07pm

Do these targeted pure play entities represent higher margins?

YIsForBrigham

6/17/17 3:25pm

Some do. Some don't. In the case of Bonobos it must be margin accretive to walmart.com.

CrimWalCoug

6/17/17 4:49pm

Weird fit? Their slogan is "a perfect fit starts here". How could Walmart pass?

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