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Four Things Walmart’s Strong Earnings Say About Retailing To A Pandemic World

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Even eCommerce giant Amazon had to switch its priority to shipping essential household and medical items amid delivery delays. That means that while Amazon and other eCommerce players were forcing customers to wait weeks, Walmart was more or less able to honor delivery windows measured in days by leveraging its store network.

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DSW’s Amazon-Proof Makeover Move

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DSW has taken some time to decide how it can best leverage that competitive advantage in a changing retail marketplace. But going into eCommerce isn’t flip-a-switch easy, and though the firm tried to make the business work with new management in 2017, it was writing down the value of eBuys on its balance sheet to the tune of $52.7