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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by tw04 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:18AM (#28926709)
No, no it isn’t the case. Walmart is the only one with more revenue, but they don’t have AWS margins to prop up everything else. I think we’d all be better off if we didn’t have a 2-horse race for 90% of our purchases…

Target (#3)had $93b in revenue in FY2020. Amazon e-commerce had $120b.

https://corporate.target.com/annual-reports/2020

https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1218313/amazon-revenue-de...

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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by didibus on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:30AM (#28926769)
I'd agree if we had a 2-horse race, but I don't see it, there are a ton of competing retail stores both online and offline.

And especially online, it's not like you're limited geographically where say your only store that has what you want is a big Walmart, you have access to hundreds of online retailer to choose from.

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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by sjg007 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:42AM (#28926843)
Target needs to do same day delivery and then they will win hands down. It does not take an MBA to figure this out and I don't know why they have not done it yet.
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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by kidsat on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:44AM (#28927181)
They already do this and it's called Shipt. There's a delivery charge (about $9.99) or yearly membership available.
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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by JanisL on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:09AM (#28926975)
Its because same day delivery takes a rather large investment in logistics systems that they may not have ready to go.
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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by sjg007 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:17AM (#28927013)
This is easy. Offer a target membership for $100 a year. Pay employees who live nearby to deliver. Easy.
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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by dralley on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:13AM (#28927340)
Here are the results of my google search for "target same day delivery"

https://www.target.com/c/same-day-delivery/-/N-bswkz?tab=how...

It appears they are already doing exactly this.

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Re:Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Co... by ctvo on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:42AM (#28929506)
If you add a few more “easy” to it it may hide you have no idea what it takes logistically or have ever built something of similar scope / complexity.
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