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Re:Amazon Restaurants by paulcole on Thursday December 15, 2016 @08:37PM (#13190387)
>Amazon's ability to prioritize the customer over themselves

Can you give some examples of times when Amazon HASN'T put the desires of the vast majority of customers first?

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Re:Amazon Restaurants by ziszis on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:30PM (#13190838)
There are many examples. Here is an obvious one - when Amazon stopped selling Apple TVs to punish Apple. Hard to see how this is good for consumers.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/10/01/amazon_blocks...

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Re:Amazon Restaurants by DavidAdams on Thursday December 15, 2016 @11:55PM (#13191177)
If it convinced any Amazon customers to buy a Roku instead of an AppleTV, then it was most definitely good for the customer [rimshot].
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Re:Amazon Restaurants by paulcole on Friday December 16, 2016 @03:03PM (#13196273)
A counter-argument is that fewer options helps consumers actually choose something that's good enough rather than debating and hand-wringing over their choice. Costco is pretty good at this.
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