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How is amazon going to undercut my barber or the brewery I go to with this data? It seems like there are plenty of businesses that could benefit from this and n
by jcomis 12y ago
How is amazon going to undercut my barber or the brewery I go to with this data? It seems like there are plenty of businesses that could benefit from this and not be at risk to the "empire".
- genericuser 12y agoAnd if they do manage to undercut your barber aren't you interested to find out how. Hair cutting drone perhaps?
- chris_mahan 12y agoIf they fly low enough?
- ajross 12y agoExactly. All the concern trolling above is about boxed product retail, where you're "competing" with stuff Amazon already sells. The majority of local transactions are and have always been in the service economy where Amazon has nothing to offer. This isn't an Evil Plot, it's just an attempt to leverage their existing payment processing abilities to get themselves a piece of Square's pi, much in the same way that AWS leveraged their existing IT infrastructure. Could they mistreat retailers who are trying to make a living reselling boxed products? Yeah. But those retailers have mostly been killed off already by Big Box stores. This ship sailed long ago.