It's sort of funny. Amazon now does is doing the same thing Walmart did back in the day. If you were a supplier for Walmart, you _had_ to adopt their business

It's sort of funny. Amazon now does is doing the same thing Walmart did back in the day. If you were a supplier for Walmart, you _had_ to adopt their business practices in order to stay competitive in the market. They would demand that so you could constantly lower prices. Amazon is sort of the same in that if they enter a vertical shopping market, if you don't provide the same level of service, you're kind of sunk. And to get to that level of service, the insidious thing is that you either let them take care of logistics and pay them a cut, or you adopt their business practices which have been honed for years. I don't think Amazon-Ification is necessarily a bad thing. Amazon runs a tight ship and companies would do well to learn.