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Amazon in Talks to Buy AMC Theaters

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Other sources say it's AMC Networks and Daily Mail got it wrong.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/amc-tv-company-stock-pop...

Once I was turned away from entering into the Amazon physical bookstore 15 minutes before closing. I thought OK, I’d just go to Barns & Noble. The problem is Amazon the company is not like Barns & Noble.

I’m afraid of the ever real chance that one day, for somethings, the only convenient place to shop is an Amazon store and they have the power to turn people away and we won’t be able to get the stuff we want or need elsewhere.

On a related note, it’s depressing to be in a Whole Foods with Amazon Flex. Seeing another person like me, carrying their daughter and shopping for another family, hurrying from one aisle to another, makes me not very hopeful for the world where Amazon takes its Amazon-ness to its logical end.

Certainly monopolies are something to fight against.

I'm not sure the examples are Amazon specific though. If Amazon disappeared tomorrow, stores would still have closing times and grocery delivery would still exist.

Since when is Daily Mail a reputable source?

Seems like Amazon is getting dangerously close to the Buy n Save (or whatever) corporation from Wall-E. The problem is no individual acquisition is suspect or bad for consumers.

It was Buy ‘N’ Large and the creators of Wall-E said they modeled the brand after Costco. Not that it doesn’t apply to Amazon. Maybe even better.

They would make great warehouses

Yeah, that and all of the defunct malls would field a good distribution channel in dense areas.

I don`t personally shop on the popular Chinese aggregate retail sites, but consumers going direct to the manufacturer may become a phenomenon here in the States as retail goes thru its next cycle.

Amazon giving customers a reason to let them broker every transaction for a fee has worked well up to now, but ordering direct has taken off with farm-to-door sales during the shelter in place orders. Whats next?

I haven`t switched gears after reading this article yesterday, but cutting out the middle-corporation/man for larger retail purchases to capture additional saving is the level of loyalty Amazon is working with.

https://jalopnik.com/this-is-how-much-buying-the-cheapest-ne...

Getting A list as part of a prime membership could be an awesome perk.

two months of next to $0 revenue

How about we have the governments break up Amazon instead ? I do not like the idea of one conglomerate (is this a congolomerate?) having influence on so many areas of my life.

Break it up for what exactly?

I bet they'll totally be onboard for screening a movie that depicts a large corporations doing evil things.

Just replying here since your other comment is dead - thanks for linking the Corbett report. You might be interested in https://coronacircus.com/

Thank you! Is the censorship that bad here? I thought people wanted access to both sides of the story.

Both sides? Would you mind naming the two sides for us?

Brain on / Brain off.

Haha great way to put it

Nonsense and not productive in any way.

Washington Post reports on large corporations all the time. Even reports on Amazon itself.

How much influence does Amazon have on your life? Is any of it unavoidable / not by choice?

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