The expected investment also doesn't match Alibaba's, the Chinese have apparently come up with $1.1 billion while Amazon is coming with only half of that value, i.e. $600 million. But maybe they're doing better in Thailand or Vietnam.
In order to force use of the AU site they blocked sales from the US site to Australian customers, which caused endless irritation and frustration.
It seems that the relatively quiet launch and slow growth has been intentional. As long as Amazon maintains a decent level of investment here I think they will continue to grow and possibly eventually be dominant.
Only recently have they ramped up advertising and started putting their listings onto Google Shopping.
And Amazon is also big in Brazil, Mexico, Japan etc. I think it is suffice to say that my point wrt Amazon dominating global eComm is fairly well laid out. Well, except for "China".
Given that, I greatly doubt the veracity of their research.
It was quite startling for someone coming from a relatively small city in a sparsely populations part of Western Canada this was quite a surprise.
I had always assumed that given my remote location people that lived in densely populated regions would be better served by Amazon.
Absolutely disagree, their service is shockingly slow and the limited range is overpriced. They make up about 0.4% of Australian online sales.
I'm not sure where you got this impression from.
Where ? Certainly not in Indonesia, the largest population in south east asia. Nor in singapore, malaysia or philippines.
But I did notice at my last job in The Netherlands that people would often order technical gadgets and the like from Alibaba.