Amazon needs a Competitor and WalMart ain't it

Oh sure, you might not see that in our lifetime, but think about it, each company is lacking in what the other possesses...

Amazon has every product under the sun, but those products must be shipped to people.

Walmart has less products in its local stores, but those products in those local stores are the most popular ones, and those stores are usually a short drive away, just a hop, skip and a jump -- away from the houses of most Americans.

It would make sense, for a future society, having the resources to do so, to consolidate these two ideas, these two infrastructures, into one...

While at it, why not put regional post offices and other delivery service hubs near the local Walmarts?

Oh sure, we can't do this in this day and age because separate corporations are the owners of those resources, and because there would be a whole bunch of government red tape and legal considerations, and that's if someone had the money to do it, etc., etc.

But, a future society -- could consolidate all of that infrastructure...

Make it clean, make it neat (architectural buildings) and consolidate these functions into the center of future pre-planned cities built around them...

A future society could do it...

Lasership is the Smaug's missing scale for Amazon. They FAIL and FRAUD on every single shipment they have made to my apartment. When I see something is being shipped by them I by default do a return.

The competition will need to be able to affirm that every single shipment is made without widespread fraudulence.

With local stores, I can go pick up, see the product, and when I return it goes to the shelf for someone else to use

I think that a fully localized Amazon would keep much of the convenience that customers love, but would remove the capitalist bottleneck in Seattle.