Walmart Tries To Dodge Amazon's Problems

Walmart is asking its vendors for more items that would sell online for at least five dollars. This is part of an effort to avoid selling lower-priced items online. Selling cheap items online can result in a loss, which is typically absorbed by big sellers like Amazon. Walmart would prefer to sell things that have a larger margin online, in order to better cushion the larger built-in costs of e-commerce. Walmart also recently added free shipping to every order 35 dollars or over.