Just like the original “Pacman” of the earliest video games, chomping through all of the pac-dots to victory, Amazon appears to be rapidly chomping its way to becoming the biggest store on earth by taking on every product and service […]
“One day, we will eventually see Amazon.com in the physical world, either with stores or kiosks,” I wrote that in my book Amazon.com: Get Big Fast in 2000. At the time, that proposition sounded crazy. I wrote, “But stranger things […]
Together, Alibaba and Amazon have about a $1.2 trillion market cap, ($483 billion for Alibaba and $720 billion for Amazon). Maybe they should unite. Not a chance for that to happen. The brilliant minds and egos of both Jack Ma […]
It has been credibly rumored that, following 20 years of driving book stores out of business, Amazon is now planning to get into the bookstore business. The CEO of mall operations for General Growth Properties, Sandeep Mathrani, commented to “The […]
What did I tell you a couple of weeks ago? I’ll remind you. I said the reason Amazon was closing most of their physical retail properties, including its bookstores, after years of fiddling around (testing is what they would call […]
In April 2014 I wrote, Walmart Can Crush Amazon. I focused on all of the competitive advantages Walmart has over Amazon. and if leveraged, implementing the right strategies, over time, (and given the time), they could beat Amazon at its […]
To nobody’s surprise, the Covid-19 pandemic gave Amazon a huge market share boost. So far, the ecommerce giant has been able to maintain most of its pandemic share gains even as consumer shopping patterns have started to normalize. However, the […]
Let me start with Walmart\’s Q3 2019 results, which by now, you are aware of. I will repeat the highlights only as a segue way to a couple of other signals that Amazon must be noticing that their Walmart headache […]
The easy answer to whether Shopify will solve Amazon’s antitrust issue is no, but the more nuanced answer is hmm. Amazon’s FTC investigation does not challenge the giant’s behavior in the ecommerce retail sector. While Amazon is clearly the market […]
Unintended consequences of Covid-19 are that it’s easier to find a captive audience and we now regularly spend time waiting in lines. In the spirit of making lemonade out of Coronavirus lemons, I decided to conduct a quick, socially distanced, […]
