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If you can get it, that sounds great. But competing with Amazon's scale sounds like a horrendously difficult problem. But yes, filtering through the cruft and

If you can get it, that sounds great. But competing with Amazon's scale sounds like a horrendously difficult problem. But yes, filtering through the cruft and garbage on Amazon seems to get worse every year, which opens up an opportunity for more traditional retailers that don't have the same problem with a million variations on the same thing by shady companies taking up search results space.

StreamBright 6y ago
They only need to win over the customers. There is a growing crowd on HN who refuse to buy from Amazon. I spread the love in the community (family, friends, etc.) and sooner or later Amazon is going to feel the lost of trust. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but if the unhappy customers reach a critical mess it will be fast. “It can take years to create trust and only a day to lose it.”
- Loughla 6y ago
  >There is a growing crowd on HN who refuse to buy from Amazon. HN is, from what I can tell, not necessarily the best bellwether for 'human actions taken'. It's sort of a small, insulated bubble. Just a heads up. The biggest problem is that, for many folks, there is no longer such a thing as 'local' store to buy things they need. Everything is a chain - wal-mart, dollar general, those sorts of places. So, to them, what's the difference between amazon and faceless corporation (b)?
  - bryanrasmussen 6y ago
    >HN is, from what I can tell, not necessarily the best bellwether for 'human actions taken'. It's sort of a small, insulated bubble. Just a heads up. It does however seem to be a small, insulated bubble with better than average economy.