Yet year-over-year Walmart's online sales only grew 7percentt, leading its CEO to lament, "Growth here is too slow". Part of the problem is that almost two decades after Amazon filed the one-click patent, the online retail shopping and buying experience is fraught with frictions.
Throughout the next year and a half before he died of a massive internal hemorrhage four months after his splenectomy, most doctors would agree, his medical care was fraught with confusion, friction and severe political implications.
A story of scandal in a metropolis fraught with racial friction may elicit comparisons with Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," and though both may be classified as social novels, aiming to depict how contemporary society shapes our consciousness, the kinship is superficial.
Historically, this is a relationship fraught with competition and friction, though aides to both men were quick to say that that would not be the case over this issue.
Enrique Peña Nieto, whom Mr Obama must have envied for his ability to persuade Mexico's Congress to launch historic reforms, has instead been clobbered by crime and scandal.But this reversal of fortune did not upset the mutual esteem that has improved a cross-border relationship once fraught with insecurity and friction.
The drawing up of New York's plan has been fraught with politics, legal battles, name-calling, personal frictions and endless maneuvers, and it is not over.
The company says its new "Patent Purchase Promotion," opening next month, is an effort to "remove friction" from a patent market that is fraught with patent trolls, lawsuits and other wasted efforts.
Denial is fraught with peril.
Innovation, by definition, is fraught with risk.
Fraught with danger and disappointment?
