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Amazon.com Adds Bricks to Its Bag of Tricks

[…] come true. Better late than never. With that nearly two-decade old thought in mind, I visited the 6,000 square-foot Amazon Books store in University Village, an upscale, open-air lifestyle mall in northeast Seattle, near the University of Washington’s sprawling urban […]

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Amazon Book Stores

[…] Mathrani’s comment, even with his slight backtrack.  But, in my opinion, the cat is out of the bag. Their Amazon Books test store in Seattle likely confirmed whatever results they required to give them a green light to go for […]

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Walmart + Jet.com Can Crush Amazon

[…] many years of catching up to Amazon (and the risk of possibly never catching up) by agreeing to acquire Jet. com for $3.3 billion. More recently I wrote, Jet.com, Reefer Madness, with a photo of its CEO and founder, Marc […]

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Behind Amazon’s Thorny Profitability Problem

[…] has been the biggest driver of Amazon’s long-term growth. When it introduced Prime in early 2005, Amazon still mainly sold books and other media, and annual revenue was less than $7 billion. Since then, the company has used the allure […]

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Amazon’s Showrunner Bet for Retail Media

Showrunner brings new risks. How will Amazon manage IP ownership for user-generated content? Can it maintain quality control while scaling content creation? Will creators embrace the platform or push back, as they have with other generative AI tools? And what […]

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Will Shopify Solve Amazon\’s Antitrust Issue?

[…] the ranks of the rebels are growing. Amazon’s third-party sales from Black Friday topped $4.8 billion, but according to WSJ. com, Shopify rang up $5.1 billion in aggregate sales. Ben Thompson, the author of the tech newsletter Stratechery, referred to […]

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Amazon’s Migraine: Walmart

[…] position in apparel and general merchandise.  TRR reporter Warren Shoulberg suggested another option for Amazon to rent rather than own.  https://therobinreport.com/amazons-trojan-horse/ And recently, another TRR reporter, David Merrefield had another observation about Amazon acquiring smaller chains around the country. So, […]

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Amazon’s Superpower

[…] entertainment as a branch. Amazon’s Media holdings currently include: Prime Video, Prime Gaming, Audible, Amazon Music, Amazon Publishing, The Amazon Bookstore, and Twitch, all developed before the Wondery purchase. Media integration possibilities could create a new consumption model. A podcast […]

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Amazon’s Luxury Folly

[…] certain amount of madness and the more successful they are, the madder. Using that measure, Jeff Bezos, who dreamed a bookstore could become the world\’s largest retailer, must be the craziest of all as he tops the list as the […]

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Amazon’s Non-Department Store Launch

[…] the near future; one Amazon Go Grocery store; five Amazon Pop Up themed kiosks and another coming soon; 21 Amazon Books stores and two to follow; and 500 Whole Foods stores. They are also opening an Amazon-branded grocery store in […]

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