1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee

Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by shakezula on Friday July 30, 2021 @03:42PM (#28011568)

Lol, no a startup can't replace Amazon without themselves having all of those rents, and insurances, and reporting accountants and lawyers. Amazon has a logistics network that rivals the U.S. military's right now. You can't just "displace & disrupt" that with a trendy San Francisco office.

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by jefftk on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:05PM (#28011820)

Why wouldn't you have said the same about Amazon and B&N in 1994?

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:11PM (#28011865)

Amazon wasn't competing with B&N in 1994. B&N however (and Borders, and so many others) were.

Amazon in the 90s wasn't about "getting a book" but "getting a book via a computer, from a place with "all the books" and I don't have to drive".

B&N could have competed with that if they had understand what was happening, but I don't think they did.

bookshop.org appears to do so, but may be 20 years too late.

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by tshaddox on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:39PM (#28012100)

I don’t think the previous commenter was saying that no startup could disrupt Amazon, but that no startup could disrupt Amazon simply by spending less time on tax paperwork.

Amazon didn’t disrupt B&N by spending less time on tax paperwork. They disrupted them by changing essentially every fundamental piece of how they conducted their business.

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by HWR_14 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @07:01AM (#28017026)

Amazon's original pitch was not selling you the latest Stephen King novel. B&N was going to beat them there. But they were going to own the long tail of books you cannot stock a cache of every few miles in suburbia.

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by fridif on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:08PM (#28011839)

I second this comment 1000x. Amazon beat Barnes, and then Walmart, and then Jet tried to beat Amazon. If the average Joe was able to give it a shot instead of just the Harvard elite, then we'd have many more chances

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