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>> "In other respects, seen any other tech companies painting their logos onto cargo planes recently?"

Why would they? Amazon's entire business is reliant on shipping and their USP is basically, you can get anything shipped to you quickly. What other tech company has a requirement like this?

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Maybe not tech company, but Walmart just bought Jet.com, and Target has also been trying to get into the online business.

I guess all retailers will try to catch up to Amazon, but there's 20 years or experience and literally billions of investment to recreate.

Even if Walmart (or others) tried to invest enough to catch up, I'm not convinced there are enough engineers (with relevant experience) available! They'd have to poach from Amazon. :)

> Maybe not tech company, but Walmart just bought Jet.com

Nope, Walmart is reportedly in talks to buy Jet.com.

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