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Somewhere there is a community of retailers that hates Amazon as much as Slashdotters hated Microsoft.
by shimon_e 9y ago
Somewhere there is a community of retailers that hates Amazon as much as Slashdotters hated Microsoft.
- rralian 9y agoI think that's a community of ex-retailers.
- giarc 9y agoI think their last name is Walton.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoAnd yet Walmart is still much larger than Amazon. In 2015, Walmart had sales of about $508 billion, while Amazon only had $83 billion. AMZ barely cracked the top ten: https://nrf.com/2015/top100-table https://nrf.com/2015/top100-table The difference, of course, is that Bezos controls a much larger portion of AMZ than the Waltons control of WMT. None of them are anywhere near John D. Rockefeller, who had an inflation-adjusted net worth of $392 billion, equivalent to 1.5-2% of the entire U.S. economy at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller