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posted by on Thursday February 16 2017, @06:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-wizard-of-omaha-is-never-wrong dept.

When Buffet speaks, people listen:

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has sold off $900 million of Walmart stock, choosing to invest billions in airlines instead.

The sale, which leaves Buffett with nearly no shares in Walmart, comes as the US's largest traditional retailer has been rushing to catch up to Amazon and other online competitors.

Amazon's market value is now $356 billion, compared with Walmart's $298 billion. Last year, Buffett acknowledged that traditional brick-and-mortar retailers were struggling in the face of competition from the e-commerce giant.

Yes, but is he still long on Big Cola?


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  • (Score: 2) by RedGreen on Thursday February 16 2017, @10:34PM

    by RedGreen (888) on Thursday February 16 2017, @10:34PM (#467995)

    Good for you but for the rest of us in small town in the middle of fucking nowhere we get what I have already stated.

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday February 17 2017, @09:24AM

    by Wootery (2341) on Friday February 17 2017, @09:24AM (#468148)

    Can't really blame the retailer here though, can we? I imagine it would be just too expensive to offer a really solid delivery service in areas of very low population-density.

    That said, how's Amazon treating you? I guess that's the gold standard these days.

    • (Score: 2) by RedGreen on Friday February 17 2017, @10:36AM

      by RedGreen (888) on Friday February 17 2017, @10:36AM (#468162)

      "That said, how's Amazon treating you? I guess that's the gold standard these days."

      Gold being the key plenty of it being needed for them. They always have the highest price most times whenever I am buying something, so me being tight SOB will go with the lowest price that means they do not get much of my business. The times I have bought from them they were reasonable enough don't like the bait and switch on the shipping. Whereby it says free shipping then you need to go through extra step at checkout to actually get it by removing the paid shipping from the total, that cost them sale couple of months ago when I first noticed it and went with another option because of that scheming.

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      • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday February 17 2017, @02:16PM

        by Wootery (2341) on Friday February 17 2017, @02:16PM (#468212)

        Trickery with defaults is always scummy. Looking at you, Microsoft.