I'm ditching Amazon for Walmart's e-commerce competitor - here's why

Amazon announced Wednesday that it was shutting down Quidsi, the subsidiary that runs a bunch of popular e-commerce sites like Soap.com and Diapers.com.

Amazon will reportedly lay off hundreds of workers and move the inventory on those sites over to Amazon.com.

I was pretty bummed when I read the news. As a city dweller, I'm a big fan of Soap.com, which I use to buy things like toilet paper, paper towel, laundry detergent, and other household items that are difficult to carry home from the store. But I figured the transition would be a good reason to check out Soap's competitors. Perhaps I could find cheaper prices on other sites, like Jet.com.

Jet.com was actually founded by Marc Lore, who also started Quidsi. After Amazon bought Quisdi in 2010, Lore went on to start Jet, which was bought by Walmart in 2016 for $3 billion.

A lot of my friends use Jet and rave about its low prices, so I decided to give it a try and see how it stacks up to Amazon's Soap.com in terms of product availability and prices.