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What is it with people on hacker news? You all love Amazon or something? Chances are a lot of them are coming back because their system, at jet, is guaranteed t
by fowlerpower 10y ago
What is it with people on hacker news? You all love Amazon or something? Chances are a lot of them are coming back because their system, at jet, is guaranteed to be cheaper if you buy multiple things. It is why they have double the order size when compared to Amazon, at least according to the news articles.
Amazon is about to close down every Walmart in America. They are going to shut down the number one employer in the whole country. It is absolutely on its way.
I for one hope we have a few players in this space.
Edits: for grammar and clarity.
- ec109685 10y agoWhat is to stop Amazon from duplicating this modal if it gets traction? What is their moat? Amazon released Prime Now about 9 months after Google Express and will copy any other successful e commerce trend and do it way better than another startup.
- driverdan 10y agoI never said anything about Amazon. I'm not sure what that came from. Real, sustainable competition is what makes capitalism great. Jet spending $800mm+ in a year and taking a loss on every sale is not sustainable.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Real, sustainable competition is what makes capitalism great. Jet spending $800mm+ in a year and taking a loss on every sale is not sustainable. OTOH, spending and taking losses like that is often the cost of breaking into a business with established competition, even if you have a fundamentally better model -- a bit part of what every business wants to do is establish the kind of "moat" that makes that kind of thing necessary for any would-be new competitor.