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Whole Foods are just one data point in an increasingly long list of Amazon acquisitions that were hailed as being the start of something huge but are just kind

by moomin 8y ago

Whole Foods are just one data point in an increasingly long list of Amazon acquisitions that were hailed as being the start of something huge but are just kind of there. I mean, it beats the hell out of the Yahoo model of destroying the acquired business, but Amazon are now in a lot of markets where they’re basically the same as everyone else.

benologist 8y ago
Amazon loves being the same because then you can buy the same thing from them that you were buying from someone else. They are even being investigated for perhaps using 3rd party vendors' sales data on Amazon to decide which products to copy, having released tens of thousands of products already under their own brands. They have even perhaps copied the occasional SaaS hosted on AWS too. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/408797-report-eu-questioning-companies-over-amazon-copycat-products https://thehill.com/policy/technology/408797-report-eu-quest... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partner_products/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partn...