Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down
by kazinator on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @04:22PM
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Ordering something on Amazon, while it can be fast, can take two months or more to arrive from China, and everything in between.
Amazon started as purely a book store in 1994 and stayed that way for a good while; it was not immediately obvious to sell every damn thing imaginable. Bezos was cautious about what to try selling online. In 1998 they announced they would move beyond books, but without specific.
Amazon did not turn a profit until 2001; they really took it on the nose in the beginning, and had to weather the dot com bust.
Before Amazon expanded into things other than books, the site most known for that was eBay. In popular culture, every meme and joke about anyone buying or selling anything online was about eBay for the longest time.
Amazon started as purely a book store in 1994 and stayed that way for a good while; it was not immediately obvious to sell every damn thing imaginable. Bezos was cautious about what to try selling online. In 1998 they announced they would move beyond books, but without specific.
Amazon did not turn a profit until 2001; they really took it on the nose in the beginning, and had to weather the dot com bust.
Before Amazon expanded into things other than books, the site most known for that was eBay. In popular culture, every meme and joke about anyone buying or selling anything online was about eBay for the longest time.