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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by syshum on Saturday November 28, 2020 @05:45PM (#25241191)
You can, but the fact that other large companies (like MonoPrice, and even newegg) sell alot of things on Amazon as well shows just much market Amazon controls.

One should likely have both, their own store, and an amazon store

Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by seastonATccs on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:38PM (#25241893)
I never go to Amazon to buy monoprice items. I go to monoprice and get guaranteed quality control over the items I will receive. If your products are compelling and your customer support is good I would prefer your own site vs going to Amazon.
Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by castwide on Saturday November 28, 2020 @08:10PM (#25242060)
I agree 100%, and often use NewEgg and Monoprice for specific needs, but there's a huge swath of stuff where I check Amazon first just because they're always competitively priced and ubiquitous. Recently, there was an appliance accessory I needed that was only available from Amazon. Their position as the first place to buy online is crazy.
Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by syshum on Saturday November 28, 2020 @08:08PM (#25242048)
While you dont, and I dont either we are not the only customers of Monoprice, and it seems monoprice gets enough sales from Amazon to justify having a store on that

The fact that we do not shop at Amzn for those items do not really change the reality of ecommerce in 2020

Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by grogenaut on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:19AM (#25243761)
I've had to go to amazon several times to buy monoprice products since their website was just broken on multiple different occasions in the last year.