Walmart one-ups Amazon: You don't need to leave home to return packages for free!

[r2d2]

The retailer announced Monday that it will pick up items shipped and sold by Walmart.com from customers' homes through a new partnership with FedEx (FDX). Walmart said the "incredibly convenient" option is free and will remain in place beyond the busy holiday shopping season.

To use the new service, called "Carrier Pickup by FedEx," customers have the initiate return process on Walmart's website or app, schedule a date for pickup and print a label. Then it will be picked up by a FedEx employee.

For those that don't have a printer, customers can also make a return at any of the roughly 2,000 US FedEx Office locations by getting a QR code from Walmart's website and a FedEx employee will print a free return label and ship it back — a similar service that is already offered by Amazon and UPS.

 

 

[sunnam]

3 days ago i went to Fedex to ship some return items to Dockers. I asked that guy how much Fexex will charge Dockers for this shipping package with return items. he told me probably $2. I got shocked. He told that Fedex is now giving huge volume discounts to all online retailers. In Fact, all online retailers will get priority over Amazon. 

Fedex is determined to kill Amazon own delivery. This is what happens when amazon messes and start taking advantage of huge shipping giant. 

[r2d2]

5 minutes ago, sunnam said:

Amazon own delivery

outsourcing too.. ninna evado U-Haul lo vachchi deliver chesaadu..

[erragulabi]

4 minutes ago, sunnam said:

3 days ago i went to Fedex to ship some return items to Dockers. I asked that guy how much Fexex will charge Dockers for this shipping package with return items. he told me probably $2. I got shocked. He told that Fedex is now giving huge volume discounts to all online retailers. In Fact, all online retailers will get priority over Amazon. 

Fedex is determined to kill Amazon own delivery. This is what happens when amazon messes and start taking advantage of huge shipping giant. 

very early to come to that conclusion. We have seen time and time again Amazon succeeds in whatever field it steps in. It might be convenient to cistomers and merchants but not the same with FedEx. It will be losing lot of money which eventually be a burden to it in the long run.

[Jilchika]

8 minutes ago, r2d2 said:

outsourcing too.. ninna evado U-Haul lo vachchi deliver chesaadu..

Amazon has out sourced delivery to outside contractors for the busy holiday season. I saw couple of white vans with a small amazon sticker on the side doing deliveries.

[sunnam]

Just now, erragulabi said:

very early to come to that conclusion. We have seen time and time again Amazon succeeds in whatever field it steps in. It might be convenient to cistomers and merchants but not the same with FedEx. It will be losing lot of money which eventually be a burden to it in the long run.

amazon failed in many things. unfortunately only success gets highlighted. it failed in pharma, food delivery, travel bookings for vacations, own Phone, webPay like paypal etc. all failed. 

Fed ex wont lose money. It is competing to Amazon delivery by giving huge volume discounts all other retailers. UPS also doing same. Rather than losing market share, it is better to have less margins kada Fedex ki.

[sunnam]

12 minutes ago, r2d2 said:

outsourcing too.. ninna evado U-Haul lo vachchi deliver chesaadu..

yaa. that's why Fedex is now competiting.

[Jilchika]

3 minutes ago, sunnam said:

amazon failed in many things. unfortunately only success gets highlighted. it failed in pharma, food delivery, travel bookings for vacations, own Phone, webPay like paypal etc. all failed. 

Fed ex wont lose money. It is competing to Amazon delivery by giving huge volume discounts all other retailers. UPS also doing same. Rather than losing market share, it is better to have less margins kada Fedex ki.

Online pharmacy start ayyindhe last month kada baa. How can you say it is a failure?

[erragulabi]

7 minutes ago, sunnam said:

amazon failed in many things. unfortunately only success gets highlighted. it failed in pharma, food delivery, travel bookings for vacations, own Phone, webPay like paypal etc. all failed. 

Fed ex wont lose money. It is competing to Amazon delivery by giving huge volume discounts all other retailers. UPS also doing same. Rather than losing market share, it is better to have less margins kada Fedex ki.

Not sure if you know this or not. Lot of industries willing to pay amazon to not step in their fields. It is known to kill giants and industries are ready to pay upfront to block it. 

[phatposts]

Edo oka roju Amazon gaadu fedex ni konestadu. aipotundi matter

[ShruteSastry]

FedEx will go bankrupt if they do this just for competition with Amazon. 

[sunnam]

14 minutes ago, erragulabi said:

Not sure if you know this or not. Lot of industries willing to pay amazon to not step in their fields. It is known to kill giants and industries are ready to pay upfront to block it. 

Ivi rumours baa. Ground lo No Tax and Price advantage unnantha varaku Amazon di baaga jarigindi. Ippudu avi rendu levuv amazon ki.  most retailers are giving price match feature for 90 days. mostly shipping free and doing many things next day delivery. They are all reinventing very nicely since 2017 to compete better with amazon. 

[sunnam]

4 minutes ago, ShruteSastry said:

FedEx will go bankrupt if they do this just for competition with Amazon. 

it won't. 2 days ago they gave 3rd quarter financial results. Blockbuster results they shown. Fedex does not want to lose market share. It can lose some margin. but not market share. That's why it is focused on all other retailers except amazon to ship many items in 2 days.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fedex-clears-20-billion-in-quarterly-sales-for-first-time-earnings-double-as-covid-19-juices-shipments-11608239829

[phatposts]

5 minutes ago, ShruteSastry said:

FedEx will go bankrupt if they do this just for competition with Amazon. 

May be thats what Amazon wants. UPS vaadu inka discount ivvalenu anappudu slow gaa LaserShip subsidiary tho private delivery start chesadu. Next that grew into Amazon delivery. Amazon delivery is practically not owned by Amazon. They started a crowdsourcing style campaign - where you as a "distributor" should own atleast 10 vans (amazon will set you up with loan etc.) Then they sourced independent delivery drivers - who get assigned to your vans. So the distributor runs the delivery for amazon even though all work for AZ only. This way they can test out the model efficiently without owning anything. 

UPS did not try to undercut amazon as that would be death for UPS. Hopefully Fedex survives or turns a page. If not the AZ monopoly gets bigger. 

[perugu_vada]

1 hour ago, r2d2 said:

outsourcing too.. ninna evado U-Haul lo vachchi deliver chesaadu..

Chala days nunche autondi @r2d2 uncle ila,