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Product design, logistics, warehousing, delivery, IT infrastructure, physical stores, ecommerce. Plenty of companies have this kind of vertical integration too
by tmnvix 9y ago
Product design, logistics, warehousing, delivery, IT infrastructure, physical stores, ecommerce.
Plenty of companies have this kind of vertical integration too (e.g Apple) but none that I'm aware of do this across such a large range of products - nor do they then offer these as services to third parties (e.g. IT infrastructure, ecommerce).
What else will Amazon decide to bring in-house? Manufacturing? Energy production? Consumer finance?
EDIT: As an aside, I find it ironic that Amazon started out selling books. I know plenty of people (myself included) that have daydreamed about owning a little bookstore as a way of escaping the rat race. Success for most would look more like Bernard Black Than Jeff Bezos.
- pelario 9y agoSocial networks?
- moduspol 9y agoThey do have their "AmazonBasics" program [1] where they're selling their own "store brand" of things. I guess that's probably not their own manufacturing (they're likely just buying in bulk and branding it) but it might be. [1] https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics/pages/2528919011 https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics/pages/2528919011