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Ask HN: Any startup standing against Amazon?

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More specifically, is there a challenger in USA against Amazon? While I'm sure Amazon people have worked hard to earn this stature, I hate monopolies (AMZN is 48% of retail business). Probably big corporates have already accepted their second rate position against this Goliath but is there any David still in making or worth supporting?

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Wayfair, Walmart, BestBuy, Google, and Target are all working very hard to beat Amazon in their respective categories. They haven't "accepted" anything.

Jet.com was a high-profile Amazon competitor that was acquired by Walmart a few years ago.

I don't think I would consider those "start-ups"

Yes, I'm not convinced either. They are neither startups nor appear to be competing hard. Jet.com was probably only good challenger which ran for sometime but I dont know what's their status now.

I was arguing against the idea that Amazon is unchallenged. I wasn't calling those companies startups.

There aren't/won't be many startups that compete with Amazon as a general retailer because it would take unthinkable amounts of time and money to have access to the inventory they have. It's like asking if there are any oil startups challening Exxon.

Bloomberg last week: This No-Brand Startup Won $240 Million to Fight Amazon on Price and Quality

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/brandless...

"And what about the $800 billion gorilla in Seattle? “It could crush them,” Kodali says."

Great!! now this is the spirit of startup.

Check this out:

https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas/issue...

Yes, ~this post~ HN front page news about Nile is what prompted me to ask the question.

Where were you when Walmart was the worst monopolist in town? Before that it was Kmart, then Sears. This is an overplayed tune.

Probably was not anywhere :) But that now that I am here, I am willing to support AMZN's competition, and Tesla's and Google's ...

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