Amazon plays a smart game.
I’ve been thinking about this inevitable outcome for years. We use a system of payments that others built on the cheap without needed security, and when it bites us in the axx we’re (consumers) are told to buy ID protection at $20/month. This is total BS. The retail sector and their bankers need to protect us on their dime, or we should never be suckered into using their system again.
The big box stores and internet retailers and credit card companies need to be held accountable for the loss of consumer identification data through their el cheapo security measures.
This policy of putting even a small burden on consumers because of poor security could be ended near term if only the CEOs of these companies were charged and held personally accountable. Their goal is to make us buy spontaneously thinking that their system poses no threat to us personally.
Wrong! Their system does pose a threat. The success of America depends upon confidence in our institutions and politicians. I have lost confidence in both. They are out for short term profits and $$$ while we all face the consequences.
Absolutely not.
No, I'd much rather have the government run it. It will save me $2500 a year and it will be free. Also, it I like my business even though I didn't build it, I can keep it!
Bezos will mine your data to find out what your best sellers are and then compete with you and kick your ass to the curb.
Unless you manufacture what you sell, he will screw you over in six different positions.
He’s smart and slimy.
In answer to the title — Absolutely not!
My daughter got a refurbished computer from them. The mouse quite in two weeks and within a month the entire computer crashed. I had a blue screen — death screen that no one ever wants to see.
The only thing that worked was the monitor and it has marks on the screen.
I won’t order from them because they support Planned Parenthood.
Amazon started collecting NC state tax as of Feb 1. Will cut into NC folk’s savings vs brick & mortar stores.
Bring the web to the brick/mortar stores. An economical COTS solution.
It might work. A concern such as Amazon could help the bookkeeping.
Stores in a chain where not all locations carry all products, or can run out, might benefit from a kiosk system within the store, if not also at the register. You would order whatever you wanted which wasn’t there on a shelf, and it would be at the store within a promised time frame. Walmart offers this as an online service, but some extra navigation within their main website is needed. The kiosk could better hold the shopper’s hand, so to speak. And often shopping in store will remind a shopper of something else desirable which, however, isn’t physically there. So why send him home to complete the order; let him complete it at a kiosk.