Walmart subsidiary Jet.com now an Apple authorized reseller
The Walmart-owned e-commerce site and Amazon competitor now offers the full complement of Apple products.
The e-commerce site Jet.com revealed on its website Wednesday that it is now an authorized Apple reseller for the first time. The site now carries the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as the HomePod, AirPods, Beats headphones and various cases and covers.
Jet.com has launched a new Apple section, and is offering bundles of up to $200 off.
It's unknown what the terms were of Jet's deal with Apple, but the deal gives Jet something its rival Amazon isn't able to offer: unrestricted sales of Apple products. Amazon sells only Macs and Apple TV directly and then even through third parties, and does not offer the iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. Amazon, for a two-year period, did not sell any Apple products that directly competed with its own electronics offerings, but it backed off and began selling Apple TV again in late 2017.
Jet.com was founded in 2014 by Marc Lore, who sold his previous company Diapers.com to Amazon. Jet was acquired by Walmart for $3.3 billion in 2016.
A Jet.com e-commerce app is available in the App Store.
The e-commerce site Jet.com revealed on its website Wednesday that it is now an authorized Apple reseller for the first time. The site now carries the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as the HomePod, AirPods, Beats headphones and various cases and covers.
Jet.com has launched a new Apple section, and is offering bundles of up to $200 off.
It's unknown what the terms were of Jet's deal with Apple, but the deal gives Jet something its rival Amazon isn't able to offer: unrestricted sales of Apple products. Amazon sells only Macs and Apple TV directly and then even through third parties, and does not offer the iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. Amazon, for a two-year period, did not sell any Apple products that directly competed with its own electronics offerings, but it backed off and began selling Apple TV again in late 2017.
Jet.com was founded in 2014 by Marc Lore, who sold his previous company Diapers.com to Amazon. Jet was acquired by Walmart for $3.3 billion in 2016.
A Jet.com e-commerce app is available in the App Store.
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I did click on a high end MacBook Pro. It didn’t look like much of a deal and it was out of stock...
This allows them to destroy competitors, especially when they engage in price gouging...it started with bookstores and it is just going to keep going and going and going until only their areas of incompetency remain as leftovers.
And there is not a lot they are incompetent in.
2) WTF does "usual sense" even mean? Do they or don't they have an exclusive control over a commodity or service?
3) Having "little profit" ≠ unfair competition.
4) How exactly are they destroying competitors in a free market where they aren't a monopoly and, as you state, competitors have much lower prices because, as you claim, Amazon has such incredibly high prices that they are well beyond anything the market is willing to pay without there being extraordinary circumstances?
5) How is Amazon so unprofitable despite all this rampant "price gouging" that you claim? I often at Amazon because prices are lower than other outlets.
Amazon is engaging in unfair competition by paying a low corporate tax rate? mmmmmm okay.