> It’s extremely difficult to keep high data integrity of the Amazon catalog when all these 3rd parties are contributing information. It gets abused in every possible way.
So you're saying this isn't a technical problem that can be solved by a technical solution?
> It’s all automated
Well I think you found the problem then.
Sears never had this issue because they have humans who do this. They also never had the scale that Amazon has achieved because of those humans.
This is Amazon's blindspot. I'm super bullish on $SHOP because of this.