Going off of your Walmart comment, I must say that company has shown the world what logistics can be. They have brought RFID to the state of the art, such that

Going off of your Walmart comment, I must say that company has shown the world what logistics can be. They have brought RFID to the state of the art, such that an entire container can be inventoried at the loading dock automagically. Amazon has 10X as many innovations, and keeps many of them pretty out in the open. I agree will OP’s chilling assessment, but appreciate the effect of innovation at scale on the rest of the world.