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No, no it isn’t the case. Walmart is the only one with more revenue, but they don’t have AWS margins to prop up everything else. I think we’d all be better off if we didn’t have a 2-horse race for 90% of our purchases…

Target (#3)had $93b in revenue in FY2020. Amazon e-commerce had $120b.

https://corporate.target.com/annual-reports/2020

https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1218313/amazon-revenue-de...

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I'd agree if we had a 2-horse race, but I don't see it, there are a ton of competing retail stores both online and offline.

And especially online, it's not like you're limited geographically where say your only store that has what you want is a big Walmart, you have access to hundreds of online retailer to choose from.

Target needs to do same day delivery and then they will win hands down. It does not take an MBA to figure this out and I don't know why they have not done it yet.

Its because same day delivery takes a rather large investment in logistics systems that they may not have ready to go.

This is easy. Offer a target membership for $100 a year. Pay employees who live nearby to deliver. Easy.

Here are the results of my google search for "target same day delivery"

https://www.target.com/c/same-day-delivery/-/N-bswkz?tab=how...

It appears they are already doing exactly this.

If you add a few more “easy” to it it may hide you have no idea what it takes logistically or have ever built something of similar scope / complexity.

They already do this and it's called Shipt. There's a delivery charge (about $9.99) or yearly membership available.

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