Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens

Re:Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer aga... by roughly on Friday May 30, 2025 @09:24PM (#44141217)

Amazon prices what they can get away with, not what their costs are. Jeff Bezos’s rocketry hobby is a testament to Amazon’s ability to extract surplus.

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Re:Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer aga... by kaonwarb on Saturday May 31, 2025 @01:00AM (#44141937)

Almost everyone prices that way - that is how supply and demand works.

Bezos's wealth is ~100% due to stock appreciation, which in turn is tied much more closely to AWS than to the consumer store.

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Re:Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer aga... by sillyfluke on Sunday June 01, 2025 @09:17AM (#44150654)

I think the point is Amazon cuts costs and reduces price first, prices out the competition through economics of scale, then once competition is eliminated is able to raise prices.

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