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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
"Delivered in days", my experience is that most deliveries get a "we couldn't find you" notice in my letter box, get bounced to a collection point, and that the collection point is often further away than the physical shop selling the same item. And two days after scheduled delivery.

Unless I want to buy something weird, in which case there's also a good chance delivery fails entirely for some reason and the order gets cancelled on the other side.

>>ben_w+dh2
I wonder what country you're in?

>>dleink+Mp2
Germany. Berlin in particular.

Also didn't have very good experiences in the UK (Cambridge and Portsmouth).

>>ben_w+DG2
Also in Berlin (Wedding, previously Moabit) and Amazon has been very reliable except in some odd cases where it’s delayed by a day. DHL on the other hand is a crapshoot.