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Without tax and wages cheating everything would be more expensive online than in (large) stores. Amazon shouldn't be able to match Walmart in prices at all. Nor
by candiodari 9y ago
Without tax and wages cheating everything would be more expensive online than in (large) stores. Amazon shouldn't be able to match Walmart in prices at all. Nor should any other online store.
I get that that doesn't match your experience after 15 years of Amazon.com being cheaper than stores, but there are clear reasons for that and those reasons have been going away.
Tax treatment has been equalizing, Amazon is now charging VAT in a different (much more fair) way, and there has been action against the abuse of international and interstate postal agreements to get free or absurdly cheap deliveries.
- icebraining 9y agoBecause Walmart physical store employees get paid a lot, right? I don't find it hard to believe that there's plenty of cheating going on, but I'd bet online will still win in the future. Workers are being replaced, while well located real estate is only getting more expensive.
- candiodari 9y agohttp://gothamist.com/2015/08/15/life_inside_the_nightmare_amazon_wo.php http://gothamist.com/2015/08/15/life_inside_the_nightmare_am... Point taken, although I do think Walmart still wins in terms of labour conditions.