So I sat down to write a letter to someone, ended up writing a 23 page essay about the history of Amazon & Walmart, how Amazon isn’t a company - it’s a runaway algorithm - and where it is vulnerable. It’s too long for an article & too short for a book. What should I do with it?
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Update: I posted this on my blog.https://zackkanter.com/2019/03/13/what-is-amazon …
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Thank you for this - great read! Ref the ads-misstep, curious to hear your thoughts re product placement in physical stores. Walmart would more likely push (as in, give more favorable shelves) Pepsi over Coke if the former has better margins - even if Coke were the better product
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Not saying this makes it less of a misstep, but the dynamic is prevalent in physical stores already, and they seem to manage such ambidexterity.
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But writing this I realize Walmart etc don’t strive to be “the most customer centric company”, which is what you were arguing Amazon’s misstep up against. Not “Amazon is better or equal to Walmart in all ways except ads”, which was how I first read it (and the basis for my q))
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