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Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down by aswanson on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:54PM (#18860585)
In hindsight, Bezos was playing chess while the retailers were playing Uno. I'm generally suspicious of a CEO making that much of a difference, but in this case, clearly, his vision was worth billions in business advantage.
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Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down by johnvanommen on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:30AM (#18862519)
> In hindsight, Bezos was playing chess while the retailers were playing Uno.

Keep in mind, his long term goal is to put people on other planets. So he's definitely playing the long game. Blue Origin is a huge factor here.

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Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down by dingaling on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:34AM (#18864902)
That's a fairly recent mindset. When he launched Amazon his plan was to sell books online. That was it.
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