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by dragonwriter 3885 days ago
> Say what you want about Jet in particular but there's a real market opportunity here. Nobody but Amazon has much of a business in the "everything store" category, and Amazon's prices have gotten high.

But, on the things I just spot checked, still the same or lower than Jet.com has for the same items.

> Compare almost anything there to the price at your local Wal-Mart, Target, etc. and there's a significant gap. Significant enough that you could buy it at retail prices, sell it at Amazon prices, ship it from UPS, and still break even.

IME, even recently, when I've checked Amazon prices online while standing in the stores, the gap usually went in the other direction.