I’ll point this out...they picked location that will require a higher profit margin...to cover real estate costs and housing for employees. In five years....some company can come out of nowhere...maybe attached to Wal-Mart or some Chinese effort, and undercut Amazon prices. In ten years, they will come to regret the two locations selected.
Wal-Mart’s online efforts are shockingly bad, based on my recent brief search for a product there, and on Amazon. They would seem to have a LONG way to go.
It wasn’t to turn a profit. Headoffices do not make a company money.
It was done to try and keep in close contact with politicians to create policy that favours Amazon over its competitors.
They won’t regret it. They’ll do what every other damn biz that has been bribed has done after the bribes stop coming: they’ll leave.
I think you are correct. There was a time when Amazon was almost always the lower cost option. Now that is almost never the case. While in many areas they are still cost competitive, now more often than not their prices are higher than what is available directly through other sites.