On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:31:48PM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:01:29
on Mon, 26 Sep 2016, David Cantrell remarked:
What's different about them that makes it possible for someone to pop up
and start competing with Uber, but impossible for someone to pop up and
start competing with Amazon?
Mainly that Uber's buyers are only dealing with one commodity - drivers,
and their product is self-delivering. Amazon has tens of thousands of
product suppliers

So do Tesco.

and tens of thousands of people required for
picking/packing and delivering them.

So they're a bit bigger than any of the supermarket home delivery
things or something like Sports Direct, but that's not an insurmountable
problem.

In any case, to compete with a business you don't have to do everything
that that business does or do it in the same way. The few remaining
bookshops, for example, are in competition with Amazon, despite not
also selling beer and sex toys, despite not stocking many books, and
despite not delivering them to your door for free.

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