Walmart’s Marketplace boom: How lax vetting came with identity theft and fakes

Walmart's Marketplace boom: How lax vetting came with identity theft and fakes

When Mary May started buying from third-party sellers on Walmart’s online marketplace, she said she assumed the products she was purchasing were the same as the ones she’d long bought in stores.

Walmart’s Marketplace boom: How lax vetting came with identity theft and fakes

Walmart’s marketplace is booming, but the strategy poses risks as a CNBC investigation found lax vetting contributed to fraud and fakes on the site.

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By Gabrielle Fonrouge – Paige Tortorelli When Mary May started buying from third-party sellers on Walmart’s online marketplace, she said she assumed the products she was purchasing were the same as the ones she’d long bought in stores. So in late March when she said she saw a “ridiculous sale” on her favorite Neuriva brain supplements on Walmart’s marketplace, she bought eight bottles for her and her sister. But when some of the once-daily oral …

Walmart Marketplace's rapid growth came with fakes, scams

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Walmart’s marketplace is booming, but the strategy poses risks as a CNBC investigation found lax vetting contributed to fraud and fakes on the site.