Posted on 08/21/2021 6:18:56 AM PDT by NOBO2012
This week’s theme is plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose…the more things change, the more they stay the same. That surely covers the Afghanistan situation, which I need to take a break from. It also sums up rather concisely this story, which literally made me laugh out loud when I read it: Amazon Plans to Open Large Retail Locations Akin to Department Stores. What a concept: bricks and mortar stores, the very thing Amazon set out to kill
Sears, reimagined
Amazon started 27 years ago as an online bookseller but from the start founder Jeff Bezos intended it to become “an everything store” and planned for its explosive growth and ecommerce domination. Amazon’s virtual business model for discount books quickly killed every other major bricks and mortar bookseller in the country other from Barnes and Noble. As others followed suit, creating their own ecommerce businesses, traditional retail of all sorts fell victim. Today, from coast to coast, whole malls sit abandoned.
Rolling Acres Mall, Akron, Ohio, before/after closing
Gen Z doesn’t even know a time when Amazon wasn’t the ecommerce behemoth it is today. They, and for the most part Millennials as well, can’t conceive of needing something that you would have to spend days or weeks trying to locate in actual stores around town and even then often have to settle for something else because nobody carried what you wanted. They never new a time when the entire world wasn’t your oyster, when things didn’t just show up on the front porch a day or two after it was ordered. Bezos’ business model, based on price and convenience, became the market in less than a generation.
And here we are today:
Amazon plans to open several large physical retail locations in the U.S. that will operate akin to department stores…The plan to launch large stores will mark a new expansion for the online-shopping pioneer into bricks-and-mortar retail…
Amazon executives have felt that bricks-and-mortar stores would enable better engagement with customers and provide a showcase for its devices and other products to shoppers who otherwise might not have tried them, a person familiar with the matter said.
Ironically, the first bricks and mortar retail store Amazon opened, in 2015, was a book store in Seattle.
Looks like it could be an old Borders Bookstore
The company has sought to innovate in bricks and mortar while building a network of stores that could glean insightful customer data and provide new shopping experiences. [ed. “gleaning” customer data has always been a big part of Amazon’s business plan.]
An expanded store footprint would enable Amazon to offer consumers a bevy of items they could try out in person before deciding to buy. That would be particularly beneficial in apparel, which can often be a guessing game for customers shopping online because of size and fit concerns. It would also give customers even more instant gratification than the quick shipping offered by Amazon for online purchases.
I guess you can call it what you like: instant gratification, boomerang business models, ‘everything old is new again’, plus ça change…the truth is it’s all premised on a form of predatory pricing, the illegal act of setting prices low in an attempt to eliminate the competition. It’s technically a violation of antitrust law as it makes markets more vulnerable to a monopoly”" (can you say “Amazon” - I know you can) However, like anything else involving crony-capitalists, don’t expect there to be any interest in such things at the Justice Department, they’re too busy not investigating the non-existent voter fraud in the last election. You know, the election where the guy who was going to clear the swamp of crony capitalists lost “fair and square.”
The only trouble with capitalism in America today is…we don’t have capitalism in America today.
Capitalism = Free Market; Capitalism + Government = Crony Capitalism: NOT Free Market. It’s that simple.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
I stand corrected, he is now. Here is a link to all companies supporting the agenda. https://www.weforum.org/partners/#A
Yes there are links to these FACTS, they've been posted here and in other platforms over many years.
Do your homework.
Use for example search terms BEZOS FATHER CIA on Duck Duck.
Bezos's stepfather, Miguel Angel Bezos Perez, is Cuban. Miguel (Mike) left Cuba for Miami in 1962 aged just 16 as part of the CIA's Operation Peter Pan.
When Bezos was handed sole source the first CIA 10 billion dollar contract in 2011, he was directed to buy the bankruptcy teetering Washington Post for 125 million.
Dig deeper:
The wife is the real covert CIA operative who everyone is missing. Not only was she the real brains behind Amazon, she’s also the handler—Bezos’ handler. See exactly how this is done at the link below.
Anyone who thinks that MacKenzie S. Bezos is just an innocent girl being pushed out of her marriage to billionaire Bezos ought to consider the true MO behind every major start-up that is born in a DARPA lab.
By the way, how does a guy like Jeff Bezos come to own the primary organ of the CIA’s Mockingbird Media … … … except by purposeful design—EXTREMELY PURPOSEFUL?!
You may have to dig very deep as people like Bezos and Gates have teams that scrub the internet daily. Try using QWANT if Duck comes up dry.
Now let's see if you can contribute something valuable to FR here rather than accuse someone of making allegations. Anyone can do that, in fact FR is populated with a lot of lazy dopes who like to pop off their keyboards without contributing anything of substance. In your case, you could have done some research before plinking away at your kb. Now let's see you do some homework.
Just saw your #21. Good work.
You were correct in your first sentence above. You erred again in your second.
Goodbye now! Ta-Ta!
So what this means is... clearly you can’t rebut anything I said. Facts are difficult things.
When I was first a member in the 90s it was customary to provide links. It was not an accusatory post, as you took it. There is no reason to be patronizing and self righteous. I have read some on Bezos and they all say alleged. There is no solid proof. Are you part of Q? You dig too deep. You see patterns where none exist. My Mother, Father and eldest sibling have gone down the Q hole and hit me with all of these. I have done my research. There is no hidden agenda, it is infact quite open. It is beyond repair at this point, it is unstoppable. We spent too much time in the cave of illusion and satanic BS that we allowed them to move virtually undetected. It is over.
Dividend investors would not touch the stock. Speculators kept risking capital in the stock and many got burned with a few making out big. But that is a common story of any volatile stock that is part of the rigged Wall St casino.
Now AMZN goes brick and mortar like Sears and they will end up like Sears because their CIA central bank connections will dry up when the Trump movement defeats the Davos gang.
Trump cancelled the AMZN AWS CIA contracts. He very much disliked Bezos and his rigged cheating game.
It's important to understand that there are many smart retailers, not just AMZN. But other retailers didn't have tens upon tens of billions in CIA contracts like AMZN had been served on a silver platter. If that kind of largesse had been available to say Coastal Farm & Ranch, AMZN could have been a dud many years ago.
I invested in AMZN in the 2000s and had a short term capital gain but I never trusted the stock because of the nagging question asked by all "Why invest in a stock that doesn't make a profit?" So it was left to speculators.
But now AMZN is out of ideas. They go downhill from here unless propped up by their Davos connections. But that won't last long because the Davos gang will go down with the CCP in the years ahead.
The point of this thread is to discuss a piece that calls Bezos a visionary. That's nothing but chatter among a sycophantic press. He's not a visionary anything. He's a CIA stooge connected to the Baphomet group in Davos. Forget him.
I hold a PhD in Statistics and Data Science from the U of WA. I was the 18th interviewee with the fly-by-night Amazon startup when I met Bezos. I was not impressed. I didn’t know about his CIA connections. I’m glad I had nothing to do with his company. The only reason he survived was because of his CIA/Wall St connections. Any other startup would have crashed and burned.
To see a headline calling Bezos a visionary is like seeing a headline calling Biden the most popular President in US history backed by 81 million votes.
I don’t dig too deep. I know from firsthand experience and will, free of charge, find some material on the wen to help people become informed.
You’re welcome.
Trump supports the Davos, World Economic Forum agenda. I thought you researched?
No he doesn’t.
Trump is a dealmaker.
Trump’s MO “It’s always good to talk.”
Do you support the WEF Sir? “Sure, sure but they got some crazies but it’s always good to talk, always good.”
WEF Schwab doesn’t want him back:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-24/trump-unlikely-to-get-davos-invite-again-wef-s-schwab-tells-nzz
Of course, no American would want Schwab in any of their business.
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