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Amazon will kick their ass on logistics. Amazon already does most of the bundling, dynamic pricing, discounts for slower shipping and other tricks that jet.com
by swingbridge 12y ago
Amazon will kick their ass on logistics. Amazon already does most of the bundling, dynamic pricing, discounts for slower shipping and other tricks that jet.com mentions. Amazon will also kick their ass in pricing (that's what they did to diapers.com).
They only real viable option is to have products that Amazon doesn't have, but citing Sears as a key early partner doesn't really bode much hope in that dept.
They'll also need to burn insane amounts of cash on marketing and customer acquisition to get people to pay for subscriptions (which they say is their only source of revenue). This at a time when VCs appetite for startups burning cash like crazy is starting to come back to reality...
If there are investors are willing to set piles of cash on fire poke Amazon in the side then I'm happy to watch such a blood sport, but the business plan and concept at this point seems rather weak.