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Posted by Derek Janssen on 02/24/06 21:23
Bob wrote:
>
> If DVD rental was such a great business, how come WalMart got out of
> it?
0_o??
<shakes head>
<fiddles ear with finger>
<reads that again>
...."Got out of it"??
History lesson:
They got the LIVING CRAP BEATEN OUT OF THEM in the marketplace for their
disorganized and poorly-planned one-distribution-center service (while
their main competitor was networking disks all over the 48 states), bled
money without a tourniquet, and had their debt-ridden service eventually
swallowed up a year later by, erm...(let's see)...
<looks up>
....oh, yeah: Netflix. :)
Derek Janssen sez, Learning History is Fun!
ejanss@comcast.net
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