Amazon's Quickly Catching Up to the Only Advantage of Brick-and-Mortar Retailers
With hundreds of stores spread throughout the United States, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Target (NYSE: TGT) have a competitive advantage over many other retailers in distribution, getting packages to customers quickly and inexpensively. It's a big factor in enabling them to mostly keep up with Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime Shipping benefit without requiring memberships.
But Amazon's quickly catching up to the two companies' cost advantages, building out hundreds of new fulfillment centers and delivery stations to get customers their items just as quickly as ever, but at less cost to Amazon.
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