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Amazon to Shut All U.S. Pop-Up Stores as It Rethinks Physical Retail Strategy

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> Amazon (for all their warts) is much more adept at keeping customer experience in their crosshairs. Except when it comes to selling counterfeit merchandise. This is more than just a nitpick, they are cannibalizing their core business. What I don't know, and I assume they do know, is how bad is the problem. Is it impacting 1% of customers who ultimately leave their platform (which could easily be offset by other fac…

I've been wondering for a while why Amazon has been letting (my impression of) trust in the listings on its retail site be eroded so much. My best naive wild guess (as a techie, not an MBA) is that a solution is Amazon private brands. Amazon could exercise control over the supply chain, could keep other sellers from piggybacking on a listing, could keep the reviews generally positive (in various ways, including aggre…

This is basically already happening. There is a long list of Amazon-owned brands - not just AmazonBasics anymore

Re: Amazon to Shut All U.S. Pop-Up Stores as It Rethinks Physical Retail Strategy

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Stop posting wsj articles. They’re just advertising for the wsj walled garden.

If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

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Re: Amazon to Shut All U.S. Pop-Up Stores as It Rethinks Physical Retail Strategy

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post #121
post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been wondering for a while why Amazon has been letting (my impression of) trust in the listings on its retail site be eroded so much. My best naive wild guess (as a techie, not an MBA) is that a solution is Amazon private brands. Amazon could exercise control over the supply chain, could keep other sellers from piggybacking on a listing, could keep the reviews generally positive (in various ways, including aggre…

This is basically already happening. There is a long list of Amazon-owned brands - not just AmazonBasics anymore

The wild speculation part is that a plan for building trust in Amazon-owned brands could explain an appearance of foot-dragging in fixing trust problems hurting other brands.
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