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Re:Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is th... by bsder on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:50PM (#26547720)
> There has never been a grocery store that has had the logistical dominance that Amazon does right now.

I challenge you on this.

I think that both Sears and A&P had Amazon level monopolies for quite a long time.

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Re:Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is th... by r00fus on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:21PM (#26548124)
I'm not some newbie but who was A&P? Never heard of them.

Regardless I'd disagree about the reach of Sears vs. Amazon. They kinda look the same as a retailer scope (Sears owned phone-order, Amazon monopolized online), but that's where the analogy ends.

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Re:Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is th... by bsder on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:57AM (#26552631)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Atlantic_%26_Pacific...

> In 1930, A&P, now the world's largest retailer, reached $2.9 billion in sales ($44.4 billion today) with 16,000 stores.

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Re:Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is th... by cafard on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:35PM (#26548288)
Atlantic and Pacific is what it stood for. Wikipedia says it shut down in 2015.
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Re:Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is th... by mikestew on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:29PM (#26548903)
On top of the fact that it's probably been fifty years since I've stepped foot in an A&P grocery. They were hardly a monopoly even then. I'm truly surprised that they were still a going entity in 2015.
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Re:Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is th... by perl4ever on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:22PM (#26550683)
I don't think I've ever been in one and couldn't have told you what states they were in. Nevertheless I heard of them somewhere, so I don't think they're the most obscure chain.
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Re:Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is th... by mikestew on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:13PM (#26559840)
"Not obscure" is a loooooong way from "monopoly", which was the original argument somewhere upthread. Wikipedia says that at their peak, A&P had 10% of U. S. grocery sales. That's not even iPhone territory, let alone monopoly.
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