{"id":34573,"date":"2017-02-15T01:03:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T09:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/warren-buffett-just-dropped-walmart-and-signaled-the-death-of-retail-as-we-know-it"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:13:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:13:24","slug":"warren-buffett-just-dropped-walmart-and-signaled-the-death-of-retail-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/warren-buffett-just-dropped-walmart-and-signaled-the-death-of-retail-as-we-know-it","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett just dropped Walmart, and signaled the death of retail as we know it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/warren-buffett-just-dropped-walmart-and-signaled-the-death-of-retail-as-we-know-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Retail is dieing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Buffett\u2019s been paring his stake in Walmart since. He first bought shares in Walmart in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>He said Amazon\u2019s competitors, \u201cincluding us in a few areas, have not figured the way to either participate in it, or to counter it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the end of 2014, Walmart shares have fallen 21% compared with a 119% jump in <a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/stock\/AMZN-Quote\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/warren-buffett-drops-walmart-stock-2017-2\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/warren-buffett-drops-walmart-stock-2017&#45;2<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail is dieing. Buffett\u2019s been paring his stake in Walmart since. He first bought shares in Walmart in 2005. He said Amazon\u2019s competitors, \u201cincluding us in a few areas, have not figured the way to either participate in it, or to counter it.\u201d Since the end of 2014, Walmart shares have fallen 21% compared with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58716,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34573\/revisions\/58716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}