Why does Amazon have no Western rivals?(www.bbc.com)
2 pointsby dabinat4 hours ago1 comment
  • AllanSavageDev4 hours ago
    This is and has been the number one question over at WalMart for a long time. They have the money and resources, the supply chain, seemingly all thats necessary to at least get a really strong start at solving the remaining problems.

    I forget but I believe Amazon gets a decent chunk of its earnings from AWS too.

    • goodmythical3 hours ago
      Gods be good and we'll never see Walmart Web Services.

      The number of times I have ordered an item and recieved texts confirming both that the item was unavailable and recently delivered is extremely high. It almost always goes "thank you for your order" "we do not have any X but will replace it with X.1" "we can't deliver your order" "your order has been delivered" with no interaction from me other than to accept replacements when I placed the order.

    • peroids2 hours ago
      Amazon gets the majority of its revenue from AWS I believe, it also always re-invests everything right back into Amazon including buying up competitors or ripping off the most popular items in their website.

      Walmart interface also just sucks.