{"id":37112,"date":"2023-11-25T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T16:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/investing\/walmart-or-amazon-a-consumer-choice\/"},"modified":"2023-11-25T16:19:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T16:19:05","slug":"walmart-or-amazon-a-consumer-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=37112","title":{"rendered":"Walmart or Amazon? A Consumer Choice."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article__body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"SB52612209053333694105304590347523453574714\">\n<p><strong>To the Editor:<\/strong><br \/>Regarding \u201cRetailers Are in for a Holiday \u2018Nail-Biter.\u2019 Who Will Win the Most Competitive Season in Years\u201d (Nov. 17): Walmart has bestowed much beneficence upon me over many years due to stock appreciation and dividends. <\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>However, on Nov. 16, Walmart stock fell 8%. Now I\u2019m struck with guilt because, the day before the 8% decline, a Ninja Professional Blender 1000 arrived at my doorstep\u2014from Amazon.com, Walmart\u2019s chief competitor. You see, it\u2019s people like me\u2014who are too lazy to go to Walmart or, worse still, fail to realize that you can order on Walmart\u2019s website\u2014who have caused the stock\u2019s bad day. To make amends, I\u2019m returning the Ninja blender unopened. Instead, from Walmart\u2019s website, I will be ordering a NutriBullet that, I\u2019m delighted to learn, costs $25 less and will leave a smaller footprint on my kitchen counter.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: I also own Amazon. Should Amazon go down 8% in one day, I may have to alter my purchase decisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Dodge<\/strong><br \/><strong>St. Augustine, Fla.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Small-Cap Takeovers<\/h2>\n<p><strong>To the Editor:<\/strong><br \/>My head is spinning from the discussion of the small-cap underperformance dilemma (\u201cSmall-Cap Stocks Are Finally Making Some Noise. Be Careful,\u201d Up &amp; Down Wall Street, Nov. 17). High interest rates, coupled with prospects for weak growth, impose a Catch-22 conundrum. Rather than agonizing over whether the recent spurt in the Russell 2000 represents a lasting recovery or yet another false start, the solution, I contend, is to forget the index and focus on individual stocks. There is probably a small cluster that will do extremely well, regardless of the index. Why? Because favorable valuations, combined with the mission-critical end markets they serve, make selective small-cap companies susceptible to takeover by larger-cap players seeking opportunistic \u201ctuck in\u201d acquisitions. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob Suthe<\/strong><br \/><strong>Bethesda, Md.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Carbon Tax<\/h2>\n<p><strong>To the Editor:<\/strong><br \/>AXA\u2019s most recent Future Risks report names climate change as the world\u2019s No. 1 risk (\u201cThe Social Fabric Is Fraying. This Global CEO Sees Opportunity,\u201d Interview, Nov. 16). AXA CEO Thomas Buberl doesn\u2019t mince words in calling for a transition plan to move from fossil energy to clean energy. Social fragmentation, food crisis, poverty, and migration are among the consequences of global warming that concern Buberl. <\/p>\n<p>Unlike the European Union, Canada, Chile, Argentina, and even China, the U.S. still allows producers to dump carbon into the atmosphere for free. The cost of the resulting damage is paid by the rest of us. Part of a logical transition plan would be for the government to start charging carbon producers for the pollution they put into the atmosphere and return that money to people as a dividend. This would speed the transition to clean energy while aiding average people in covering the cost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don Campbell<\/p>\n<p>Glenside, Pa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Send letters to: <\/strong>mail@barrons.com. To be considered for publication, correspondence must bear the writer\u2019s name, address, and phone number. Letters are subject to editing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/articles\/walmart-or-amazon-a-consumer-choice-d17eec3d?mod=investing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor:Regarding \u201cRetailers Are in for a Holiday \u2018Nail-Biter.\u2019 Who Will Win the Most Competitive Season in Years\u201d (Nov. 17): Walmart has bestowed much beneficence upon me over many years due to stock appreciation and dividends. However, on Nov. 16, Walmart stock fell 8%. Now I\u2019m struck with guilt because, the day before the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-investing"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Walmart or Amazon? 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