• Walmart shutting down Jet.com after buying it four years ago for $3.3B

    Walmart shutting down Jet.com after buying it four years ago for $3.3B

    Walmart said it’s shutting down Jet.com, just four years after it shelled out $3.3 billion to buy the online grocery startup in a bid to compete with Amazon. The world’s biggest retailer scooped up Jet.com — founded in Hoboken, New Jersey, by e-commerce pioneer Marc Lore — in 2016 in a bid to beef up …