{"id":2088,"date":"2009-10-18T22:26:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T05:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/10\/grendel-came-from-arkansas\/"},"modified":"2009-10-18T22:26:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T05:26:29","slug":"grendel-came-from-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/18\/grendel-came-from-arkansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Grendel Came From Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2009\/oct\/17\/wal-mart-outdiscounts-amazon-and-retailers\/\" target=\"_blank\">from Commercial Appeal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Wal-Mart outdiscounts Amazon and retailers<\/h1>\n<h2>Effect of online price war could have wide impact<\/h2>\n<p>By By Ashley M. Heher, Associated Press, Saturday, October 17, 2009<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.walmartimages.com\/i\/catalog\/modules\/G0040\/wmlogo.gif\" align=\"right\" height=\"62\" width=\"145\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/>CHICAGO &#8212; Taking a page from its original playbook, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com Inc. and a nation of book retailers, lowering online prices on certain highly anticipated hardback titles to $9.<\/p>\n<p>The volley of discounts, which began Thursday when the retailer listed prices for some upcoming hardcover releases such as Dean Koontz&#8217; &#8220;Breathless&#8221; and Stephen King&#8217;s &#8220;Under the Dome&#8221; at $10, was answered with a similar price cut by Amazon, the largest online bookseller. Then the two competitors lowered the prices even further to $9.<\/p>\n<p>The book discounts, the latest in a series of aggressive online maneuvers by the world&#8217;s largest retailer, could position the company to do to the online marketplace what Walmart stores did to local merchants decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2009\/oct\/17\/wal-mart-outdiscounts-amazon-and-retailers\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at CommercialAppeal.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Commercial Appeal Wal-Mart outdiscounts Amazon and retailers Effect of online price war could have wide impact By By Ashley M. Heher, Associated Press, Saturday, October 17, 2009 CHICAGO &#8212; Taking a page from its original playbook, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com Inc. and a nation of book retailers, lowering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}