Stalk: Walmart Cannot Easily Replicate Amazon's Dense Distribution Network
George Stalk Jr. · Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr. · May 2, 2023 · at 53:35
George Stalk Jr., BCG senior partner and author of Competing Against Time, discusses the challenge legacy retailers face competing against Amazon's logistics network.
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“If you're Walmart trying to catch up with the distribution system of Amazon, I can't really use much of my current distribution system because it's made up for dealing with large volumes, selling large volume stores. And I have to come up with a distribution system that has much more distribution centers. I don't know if you've noticed how many distribution centers there are around small towns and there are Amazon distribution centers. That's a very expensive thing to replicate.”
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