I agree with you. Amazon, like Walmart, is sort of in this grey zone for me. They smell and feel a little funny. Both are relentless in their customer focus

I agree with you. Amazon, like Walmart, is sort of in this grey zone for me. They smell and feel a little funny. Both are relentless in their customer focus, they drive prices down, they both continue to add more and more services and offerings that seem to be what consumers want and might even be good. There isn't any particular thing I can point to and say with any definitive backing that they are doing and it's bad. I like small indie stores, but Walmart and Amazon beat them on prices and win the market; that's capitalism. Truthfully, I don't see either of them really doing stuff that is bad for the market, they're just better than the competition. Worse, if you go to a small town after a Walmart is built (are there many of these left?) it seems like the locals are almost in a hurry to put the local businesses out of their misery, the Walmart parking lot will be full. It's more of just a concern about the immense power these businesses have and an innate distrust I have of giving that much power to a business. There will be an Amazon backlash, there are already lot's of people that at least claim to not shop at Walmart for various reason, I expect the same will come true with Amazon. Not sure it will amount to much but it's coming. Nobody has made a move to break up Walmart, it's hard to say that anyone will for Amazon.