Blaming an innovative successful Business Plan executed against existing Business Models run by People who assume they have no competition is short sighted.
When an Anchor Store in a Shopping Center or Mall is shuttered, all the other Businesses in that location suffer. I've seen it happen multiple times where we used to live in S. Orange County, CA.
A Shopping Center close to our Home was on its last legs when the primary Anchor Tenant, a Grocery Store closed. Even before the closure it was not a popular shopping place.
Losing that major source of Rental Income, the owner of the property let it languish even further and we watched one small Business after another close up shop.
That is until Whole Foods took over the empty space and some of the adjacent units. Talk about a Renaissance. that same Shopping Center is going gangbusters. All the previous empty Units are rented out and those small Businesses are thriving.
If Amazon wasn’t basically a store front for the CCP then I would be in favor of this.