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Do not be fooled. Wal-Mart's website may be a disappointment now, but many suspect it's just the soup before the souffle--served to tide customers over while the company cooks up something better. Wal-Mart is doing what it has always done, notes DLJ analyst Gary Balter...
The first strike is planned for New Year's Day, when Wal-Mart has said it will launch a redesign of the site, adding photo and travel services and expanding the menu to 600,000 items (superstores typically stock about 100,000). The company also promises to link the site...
The changes move Wal-Mart closer to the "clicks-and-mortar" approach to e-tailing. But Balter isn't expecting a watershed event. The company will improve its online operations, he says, "at a pace it feels it needs to go at to win--and it usually wins." Wal-Mart...
Mighty America Online just signed up to help pass out the punch. Last week Wal-Mart and AOL confirmed plans to launch a co-branded, low-cost Internet service by next spring. In-store kiosks will help introduce shopping at wal-mart.com--and probably the new ISP--to the yet-untapped...
Wal-Mart does face some challenges. It's the leading logistics company in the world, but it is not set up for shipping directly to consumers, an essential link in the e-commerce chain. To fill the gap, Wal-Mart has contracted Books-A-Million and Fingerhut to pick, pack...