> The problem is that the Mom & Pops are inefficient and the giants are efficient. There are diminishing returns to efficiency. Grocery stores, for example, a

> The problem is that the Mom & Pops are inefficient and the giants are efficient. There are diminishing returns to efficiency. Grocery stores, for example, are just as efficient as Amazon is even though many of them are a fraction of the size. Something like a gas station will be just as efficient whether it's ran by a mom and pop or whether it's ran by Shell. > Are the Mom & Pops going to deliver an order you place at 4 pm on your phone by 10 am the next morning? Often yes, if it's in inventory. If it's not you'll have to wait longer than you would with amazon. In fact, one of the benefits of mom and pop shops is that they can generally get things delivered to you same day because they live in the same city as you do. Much like you get same day delivery from a restaurant even though they are often mom and pop shops. But to my point above, you don't need a company the size of amazon to get next day delivery. Amazon could be broken up into several smaller (but still big) companies and it'd have close to exactly the same efficiency. It would also result in lower prices because now Amazon would have actual competition.