Amazon first party sales are a loss-leader for highly profitable 3rd party sales.
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Amazon literally loses money on many of the branded products they sell. They make it all back and more through their marketplace. Amazon perpetuates the myth that they make no money to avoid regulatory and government oversight.
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So why risk the bad publicity by pushing so hard to bring more and more products in house and competing aggressively with the vendors on their platform. They could accomplish the goal of showing limited accounting profits without the expansive portfolio of branded products.
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Agree with you on this. They should only be private labelling grocery store stuff. Anything else is a bad idea for them.
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