Wouldn't surprise me. Amazon looks like it has dominated the ecommerce and cloud market already, so now it wants to branch into physical locations now. There's

Wouldn't surprise me. Amazon looks like it has dominated the ecommerce and cloud market already, so now it wants to branch into physical locations now. There's more room for oppurtunity and they haven't saturated those areas yet In many ways, Amazon is becoming a real estate company now. For some reason I imagine Amazon's next big purchase is going to be gyms, it just makes the most sense to which market segments they are heading towards now(consumers who are on the middle-end to higher end spectrum). Its probably going to something like gold's gym or LA fitness. I mean they have "Amazon GO" stores already, which works perfectly next door to gyms because of its smaller footprint. I also wager Amazon will want to expand into the oil & gas as well afterward. We'll see the equivalent Amazon version of Wawa gas stations. Its differentiator is going to be based on its own technology + ideas from Japan's technology innovations. This will also be a test-bed infrastructure for electric vehicles and its footwork into the car industry, 30-40+ years down the road. Amazon probably is looking to convert its whole foods store into its "Amazon GO" concept, although this is a long process in the making. Wholefoods 365 (the ones after the merger) might be the testbed market first though, not the original Wholefoods. I've done some actual work with Amazon here too Amazon is already in the police survelliance market in orlando. Everyone's face in downtown is under high resolution CCTV's routed through AWS. More real estate means more areas to use it too. We have China as a test market for social media credit scores already, amazon is just potentially laying more footwork for the American market if it ever pivots and gains wider acceptance. Amazon's long term goal is to essentially have everything "essential" route through them. It'll be like a black mirror episode in the making. Bezo want influence, the best way to do this is dominate every major market sector that people deal with daily/weekly. 20 years from now, you'll deal with Amazon on a daily basis even if you didn't want too, because there's no better alternatives. Companies like facebook, google, amazon etc have far more power and influence on different levels than many countries. Why build a country when you can build a global business empire? At least that's how I imagine Bezos is thinking