>In a memo to staff, Jassy suggested even sacred cows, such as the online store, could be hit in the coming months. Already, a hiring freeze is in place across

>In a memo to staff, Jassy suggested even sacred cows, such as the online store, could be hit in the coming months. Already, a hiring freeze is in place across the entire company. By far the most shocking thing in this article. Amazon's online store has been getting worse and worse in quality, to the point where I've largely stopped using it if I can get things anywhere else. From my perspective, the competition from WalMart is especially big - WalMart+, the guarantee of actual quality products, and the 1 day delivery that comes with it has been worth much more to me than Amazon Prime. For more niche things, I can buy direct online. So Amazon might lose out on a lot of market share if things keep going the way they are going. I have to wonder what the long term effect of cutting back on online store employment is; will Amazon become the new Wish? Brick and mortar retailers aren't strangers to completely losing out on gigantic amounts of market share due to not keeping up (see KMart), who's to say this doesn't also apply to online retailers?