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Re:The High-Speed Trading Behind an Amazon Purchase by discodave on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:24PM (#13973792)
> but have 30 or 60 days until they had to pay the supplier, so the interest on the payment in the meantime was profit

That's a very common tactic in retail. Amazon didn't invent it, even if they did lean on it heavily.

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Re:The High-Speed Trading Behind an Amazon Purchase by ScalaFan on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @10:53AM (#13977041)
Some credit card companies do exactly that. It is an old game.
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