> With no competition, companies like Amazon
amazon has only got ~5% of the US retail market. this ongoing meme that they've got no competition is surreal.
amazon has only got ~5% of the US retail market. this ongoing meme that they've got no competition is surreal.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/amazons-share-of-the-us-e-...
What I care about is obtaining a product. Segment by non-substitutible category (book vs electronics, etc) but not delivery method.
yeah, Sears, keep telling yourself that online is a different market.
You can't compare them to the entire retail market. If anything, their competition is Wal-Mart's online service, or Ebay.
sure i can. i do every time i buy something at my grocery store, or local retailers, that i could've gotten from amazon.
You literally named two. My father knows how to do only two things on his computer - check his email, and buy stuff on eBay. There is a "Walmart.com" desk and in-store signage in 5,000+ physical stores.
Neither of those are bigger, in fact they're dramatically smaller, Amazon has 49.1% of the online retail market to eBay's 6.6% and Walmart's 3.7%, according to: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/amazons-share-of-the-us-e-...
> Because Amazon has out priced or out delivered many local stores, we don't have those choices any more.
Original post referred to the marketplace in general, and even posited that Amazon has "out priced" local stores, so the goalposts were set to reference the market in general. You're the one moving them.
I was obviously talking about the major marketplace associated with Amazon, IE online ordering as opposed to the entire retail market.