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There are a few fundamental, hard problems : energy and transportation. Amazon is trying to solve a subset of the latter here. However, I like to see/feel some
by Scene_Cast2 14y ago
There are a few fundamental, hard problems : energy and transportation. Amazon is trying to solve a subset of the latter here. However, I like to see/feel some things in person before buying. I often go through lot of items before finding "the one". Examples: food, pens, shoes. It would revolutionize the industry if Amazon could solve that. Until then, it's just a really large online store.
Also - USA isn't the world. Non-US Amazon is heavily sub-par to other online stores: worse prices, small selection. So there's that, too.
- ippisl 14y agoI think amazon is concentrating on the clear and really hard pieces of eCommerce: warehouses everywhere, robotics, pack stations and leaves the fuzzy and less hard pieces to start-ups. So now for example there are many start-ups working on the clothes and shoes fitting problem. In the future when the solution will be found , amazon would buy them , or just use their eCommerce muscle to force them into good terms or just copy them if possible.