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Interesting. Initially, I was thinking "But Amazon could only ever eat into a small-ish percentage of Google's total revenue, because Lowe's and restaurants and
by mjmahone17 13y ago
Interesting. Initially, I was thinking "But Amazon could only ever eat into a small-ish percentage of Google's total revenue, because Lowe's and restaurants and such will still want to advertise on Google so long as anyone is using it for search." However, I think there's a clear avenue around that: allow Amazon to index and ship Lowes' products. This would allow stores to stop supporting their massively expensive e-commerce operations (or significantly reduce them), especially if Amazon allowed the store to have significant individual branding when you're viewing a product they list. They could even index movie tickets and restaurants, which would mean you could Amazon your "night out," reserving tickets and dinner online, in one place.
- ereckers 13y ago"allow Amazon to index and ship Lowes' products. This would allow stores to stop supporting their massively expensive e-commerce operations (or significantly reduce them)" Sounds like the "online malls" of yesteryear, maybe even a little AOLish. I can see Amazon continuing to be used as a sales channel, but I think we've already gone through that line of thinking and a place like Lowes still finds big value in running their own store.
- jeffasinger 13y agoAmazon already is showing links and products from competing sites. This isn't that far fetched.
- MBCook 13y agoThis is what Borders used to do. For some insane reason their online shopping site was run by Amazon, their biggest competitor.
- alaskamiller 13y agoLike toysrus.com, then they gave up.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoWill Amazon be willing to customize their engine to meet the needs of specific markets? Not everything is "sell item X to person Y, ship to Z".
- jeffasinger 13y agoYea, in store pickup, and local delivery by a store are two things I doubt Amazon is prepared to handle well.
- SatvikBeri 13y agoAmazon does something similar to in store pickups in Japan. They'll deliver to a convenience store near you and you can pick it up there-it's a very popular option.
- jeffasinger 13y agoI was more talking about the option to buy something that's in inventory at a local store, but yes, I can see why that would be a popular option.
- qohen 13y agoThey do this now in the US as well, using 7-Eleven convenience stores equipped with a set of Amazon-branded lockers that has an ATM-like device in the center -- you type in a PIN that opens the specific locker holding your package, as shown here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoJiizFlxno http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoJiizFlxno