Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

Government to Break Up Amazon

It's time to break Amazon up and I think the regulators realize this now... Amazon treated the book industry the same way we handled the territories into which we decided to expand - use massive amount of capital to lower prices, destroy anyone who competes with us. At some point, once the company becomes the only employer in the community (Amazon Warehouses, Distribution Centers) employees are turned into shift workers with minimal pay. That's exactly what they are doing right now - with all the capital available to them (500 Billion market cap) they are free to lobby local, state and federal governments in order to build anti-competitive walls around them.

It's time to break them up.

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It will never happen. The republicans are in power and they are pro big business. Come to think of it most democrats are, too.

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It's nice to see Walmart get the same treatment it dealt to other business's. I will be happy when this low class China promoting poverty wage paying group gets closed down... AND it surely will close down just like all of the others. Those who lose Walmart jobs will be the lucky ones.

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Is this a site about layoffs?

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A Trillion $ in market capitalization, not in revenue. Additionally, one should not assume that Facebook, Google, Apple, and the rest of the portfolio of competitors will stand idly by and not innovate to compete.

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By 2020 they will become our first trillion dollar company. Millions of jobs will be lost, many at Walmart. Social instability will set in. They will be broken up by 2020...

Btw, they will now go after Apple (hardware), Google (voice search) and Facebook (Alexa messaging) - they want the WHOLE pie: retail and new tech, everything

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Those arguments sound similar to the ones made about Walmart, which has not been broken up. And consumers still have choices. Ecommerce has effectively enabled choice across a variety of providers.

AMZN is not just a retail company. They serve sellers, buyers, content developers, and enterprises. Are you suggesting that they have cornered the market for cloud computing? They are effectively a technology company that enables Ecommerce. Additionally, they have an EDLP/EDLC business model, as Jeff Bezos' view is that high margins attract competition, while low prices attract customers. There are still service areas where it will be a challenge for AMZN to compete.

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