Also, Amazon is building a new warehouse down the road from my place. There are now more huge amazon warehouses than walmart STORES in my area now. And amazon warehouses are growing like weeds. In another decade or two they will dwarf even walmart. That’s definitely standard oil territory in my book.
Definitely. If it were up to me, I’d start with breaking Amazon into about 8 or 10 different entities. Break the storefront into maybe 6-7 regional companies and let them compete with each other for the rest of the country and world. Break off their internet services division into a separate company; and then break off one or two pieces for their technology (streaming, devices etc) and their branded sundry items. None of these broken off entities really survive without subsidy from the other cash flows Amazon has (mostly from capital raises) so they would be forced to be competitive, but also profit minded as stand alone enterprises and that would end their predatory behavior.