Apparently Amazon is only able to do this because Sears left a void in the market 50 years ago. Sears ditched their convenient mail system, a differentiator at

Apparently Amazon is only able to do this because Sears left a void in the market 50 years ago. Sears ditched their convenient mail system, a differentiator at the time, for brick and mortar stores, the big box carcasses of suburbia we all loath yet yearn for. If this was the end game of capitalism, sears would have done it 100 years ago, while Standard Oil was masquerading as the end game of capitalism. Yes, but this time its different. Not to trivialize the threat, just to point out the irony. The capitalist pressures are such that Amazon may drop some less profitable lines, eventually, and others get to fill the void, again.