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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
How'd that work out for the Sears Catalog?

>>DrillS+Cg2
Sears was destroyed by standard corporate raider tactics. I don't think that they serve as the example that you may think they do.

>>ssl-3+Rq2
I used to work at Starbucks in their corporate office building in South Downtown Seattle. The building used to be a Sears warehouse ago [1]. The walls next to the elevator in the ground floor still had printed some sort of "Sears customer contract". It had clauses like "you can return the merchandise if you are not satisfied with no questions asked. We will refund you for any shipping charges when returning merchandise". Or "if you cannot find it in our warehouse you can have delivered from our catalog to your home". These slogans reminded me of Amazon and their customer obsession.

Sears could have been Amazon if they kept their customer obsession.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears,_Roebuck_%26_Company_Mai...

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https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm4RCM_Sears_Tower_Seatt...