The beginning of the end for Amazon.
Once they run everyone out of business, who’s going to have the products on display.
The days of going into a brick and mortar, taking a picture and then ordering cheaper online can’t last forever.
But you may be right, once Amazon has brick and mortar, someone else will Amazon them.
From everything most people have read and the ancillary employee stories they’re just wrecking everything Whole Foods was good at and known for.
So yes, sure, take the Toys R Us stores, heap more brick and mortar failure on yourselves.
Amazon’s lack of humility and growing lack of focus is quite astounding.
They don’t do Prime Video as well as Netflix, HBO Go do movies and originals. They don’t do Prime Music as well as Apple, Spotify or Pandora. The Washington Post is a running joke. Outside of actually selling stuff online they aren’t making headway in all of these branching out efforts.
If their drone delivery works even remotely well for a lot of things it’s game over for anyone trying to compete against them in that space. However everything else they are burning through a lot of capital.
That’s not a boo hoo, just a fact.
Just looking. As the article points out, they’ve looked before. But enough of the competition is closing they might need showrooms of their own soon.
“The beginning of the end for Amazon.”
This could be. Wasn’t the whole reason amazon rocked so many brick and mortar businesses was not paying rent on both stores and supply warehouses.
Should be interesting at least
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Dunno. The only profitable part of Sears for a long time were the small stores that didn’t carry much, if any, inventory, but mainly served as a hub for drop off and pick up of catalog items.
The Amazon storelets could serve much the same purpose — small showroom, but mainly just an economical hub for delivery and return.
That's my take as well. All the other companies that over-expanded their brick and mortar footprints have all ended up having to close stores in order to continue making a profit.
Either that, or we will end up with ONLY Amazon for our buying choices.
Amazon makes the most profit and income from their data services, AWS. They have over half of the market, more than Microsoft, IBM, Verizon and all the others combined. They don’t care if they lose money in other sectors. They need the write off.