Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech

Re:Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech by wcunning on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:40PM (#20751861)

Except that the specific example everyone sites is Amazon, and Amazon isn't even in the double digits of all retail in the US [0]. WalMart on the other hand is 8.9% of all retail [1] -- nearly double what Amazon captures. Neither one is that much of the total market. Online is also a surprisingly small portion of total retail still, esp. when you start looking at the magnitude of the numbers.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/amazons-share-of-the-us-e-... -- 49% of ecommerce, 5% of total retail [1] https://www.pymnts.com/consumer-insights/2018/walmart-amazon...

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Re:Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech by samsonradu on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @05:46PM (#20752550)

Just to get this out of the way, I’m not saying it’s a good measure but I think it’s trying to tackle a real problem.

Regarding the ecommerce market share I’d like to know the current numbers and the trend over the years. One should not wait for 99% to start taking measures, all competitors will be dead by then.

Regarding the physical stores Amazon isn’t really trying to capture it as the barrier to entry is much lower than online and margins are low anyway.

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