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Why would they invest in such great infrastructure for amazon.com if they're just going to sell that infrastructure to competitors?

• colinmhayes 5y ago
  Because they make more money selling ads than they do selling their own products? Can't sell the ads unless merchants are using the marketplace though. Whole foods isn't necessary to sell the camera tech to competitors.
  • Uehreka 5y ago
    Is that even true though? I thought they frequently copied merchants’ products as Amazon Basics if they were selling well? Because if that’s true, it means they’d rather have the business themselves than advertise for someone else (at least in some categories).
    • jacobr1 5y ago
      Or they incentivize/empower teams to find revenue without an overarching strategy, and then periodically rationalize what they have.