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Amazon turned a "small" profit just the other day. Overall I think it's still fair to categorize it as a money losing venture (so far).

All shopping is going to be online and delivered for the same price as going to a big warehouse store. With the dash buttons and the third party integration Amazon is too big to ignore.

Walmart being a established multi-national company they can't really have unprofitable divisions or unprofitable quarters. This will be equivalent to Yahoo's Tumblr acquisition (a failure).... no amount of heads exploding blue dust will save this.