Michael, we're bigger than Sears, Macy's and Target combined!
Why are these new plutocrats such bad people?
Sears? They just sold Craftsman to Black and Decker. Sears is done now.
Michael, we're bigger than Sears, Macy's and Target combined!
Not bad for a small bookseller 20 years ago.
Paypal caused me to avoid eBay several years ago. In that time I discovered Amazon and then an interesting thing happened. It suddenly hit me that Amazon has completely replaced eBay for me. The only places I buy stuff online are MCMelectronics, Amazon and Costco.
And occasionally Sweetwater.
We have seven of those stores in my town of 35,000 and I buy more from Amazon than all seven combined.
A local radio show host here talking about the 12/26 mass fights by teens organized on social media described it as a whopping advertisement for Amazon Prime.
Shop at the comfort and safety of home.
one day Amazon might even turn a profit
Amazon is a horizontally integrated tax avoidance scheme.
Bezos opens up new businesses at a loss anytime he might earn a profit.
He only made one mistake: Amazon Web Services (”the cloud”) grew so fast he accidentally made money and was taxed.
Amazon’s business model is otherwise approximately:
TAXES ARE FOR STUPID PEOPLE.