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Re:Conglomerates Didn’t Die, They Look Like Amazon by Spooky23 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:31AM (#14595368)
He's basically saying that Amazon is a big logistics company. Except he calls it meat as a service.

It's an interesting take. But it is also how many analysts thought that Walmart would kill grocery stores. I personally don't think that Amazon will fare much better than Walmart... shopping for groceries is fundamentally harder online, and Amazon hasn't demonstrated any magic that makes that easier.

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Re:Conglomerates Didn’t Die, They Look Like Amazon by ZoeZoeBee on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:24PM (#14596518)
Wal-Mart is killing grocery stores, Wal-Mart's grocery accounts for almost 53 percent of overall revenue.

There has been a large amount of food deflation over the past few years, the nation's largest Grocer Kroger cites Wal-Mart as a large contributing factor to this. http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-is-cutting-prices-201...

Grocers margins are already razor thin, have you been paying attention to Kroger's stock price

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