Good insights but the main point of the article seems overblown to me. consumers are smart enough to see what is an ad and what is organic result. I don’t think Amazon is trying to deceive the consumers with the ads.
New post: a 6,750 word analysis of my favorite subject - Amazon, Walmart, and what happens when a massive market meets the internet.https://zackkanter.com/2019/03/13/what-is-amazon/ …
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1. No, they aren’t. 2. I don’t think they’re trying to deceive the customer, either. It’s just not customer-centric.
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Great read Zack. Very insightful. Humble feedback: 1 - Marketplaces have to clean up stale / fraudulent supply en masse sometimes. Etsy has done this. Why not amazon too? 2 - doesn't this presuppose Bezos isn't willing to kill a lucrative but counterproductive revenue line?
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1. Yes, it's possible. It's just very, very hard at Amazon's scale. 2. Yes.
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Huge insights into Amazon. Would make a good book. Any thoughts on Alibaba? Do they have the same fundamental problem?
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I don't know enough about Alibaba to have an opinion.
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Worth a read if you’re trying to better understand Amazon. No one gets into their machinery better than Zack.
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A great supplement to your post here Zack - while Amazon grows and Walmart tries to adapt, Costco just thrives. Why not all physical retailers are threatened by the rise of the e-commerce giant:https://www.dropbox.com/s/vfp35g2kq5yx78c/COSTCO%20Deck.pdf?dl=0 …
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yep, that deck is great.
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