Looking Back at Our Missteps on Wal-Mart and Amazon

Mistakes will be a part of everyone's experience with investing. To embrace this idea, the Industry Focus team is looking back at some of the instances when they really missed the mark.

In this Consumer Goods episode, Vincent Shen is joined by Fool.com contributor Dan Kline as they revisit three stories that ended up taking them by surprise -- Wal-Mart's (NYSE: WMT) $3.3 billion acquisition of Jet.com, Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) brick-and-mortar expansion efforts, and McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) delivery initiative.

A full transcript follows the video.

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