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>>mdp202+(OP)
Amazon is not a secret weapon, poison pill maybe?

This is a company that is actively shooting itself in the foot on all fronts and by the time they realize it’s gone too far they won’t be able to turn the ship fast enough.

>>Action+qY1
People desperately want Amazon to be failing but it just isn't. They made 30 billion in profit in 2023. The rumors of Amazon's demise are greatly exaggerated.

>>BadHum+x02
It’s not that people are wanting them to fail, just that they are being so anti everything whilst their competitors amass.

I’ve got friends who’ve moved from AWS-centric roles to Azure-centric, prime is a dead product walking, twitch is unprofitable, Alexa is dead, and their original business is squeezing users, drivers, and employees. A strong viable Amazon.com alternative and they are done.

>>Action+X82
Sure, a store where you can buy literally everything and have it delivered in days, and they're done.

>>amadeu+xb2
*in hours, for certain product/location combos.

>>Ajedi3+ee2
Yep.

I remember one move I made to a new city. I'd downsized a bunch of my stuff and got settled in pretty quickly. Everything was right with the world except my Harmony remote didn't survive the move and my guitar hanger got left behind.

So I looked at Amazon to at least get a baseline price for these two things, and they offered to deliver both of them to my door in a couple of hours.

I sanity-checked the prices and they were fine.

"What is this wizardry," I thought to myself, when I had both items at my door in a couple of hours.