Amazon's third-party “seller services”, a large and growing part of the company's revenue that is also profitable, has filled its Marketplace with junk products
its drift from anything resembling shopping or informed consumption — is becoming harder for Amazon's one-click magic trick to hide.” https://nymag.com/... Maya Kosoff / @mekosoff : retail in 2023 involves choosing between going to walgreens and doing ur shopping by having a worker unlock each individual item for you from behind plexiglas, or trying to decide between IOCBYHZ, BANKKY, or KLAQQED spatulas on amazon https://nymag.com/... Craig Mod / @craigmod : In Japan, for any electronics purchase of moderate value, I go straight to the bic / yodobashi websites instead of Amazon; it can just be too much of a headache to parse the results otherwise: https://nymag.com/... Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : the age old question: BANKKY or KLAQQED? https://nymag.com/... Noah Kulwin / @nkulw : most original take on amazon i've encountered in years https://nymag.com/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : The experience of shopping on Amazon is getting worse, but the good news for Amazon is that the experience of shopping at physical retail stores is getting worse at a faster pace https://twitter.com/... John Herrman / @jwherrman : amazon is optimizing itself into oblivion https://nymag.com/... @tedfrank : Amazing. (Also, if you live somewhere so shoplifter-ridden that you always need someone to unlock products for you, move to Houston, where it's happened to me twice in three years (both times baby formula), and I never bought from the shelves there again.) https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
“This is all normal in that Amazon is so dominant that it sets norms. But its essential weirdness — its drift from anything resembling shopping or informed consumption — is becoming harder for Amazon's one-click magic trick to hide.” https://nymag.com/...
In Japan, for any electronics purchase of moderate value, I go straight to the bic / yodobashi websites instead of Amazon; it can just be too much of a headache to parse the results otherwise: https://nymag.com/...
retail in 2023 involves choosing between going to walgreens and doing ur shopping by having a worker unlock each individual item for you from behind plexiglas, or trying to decide between IOCBYHZ, BANKKY, or KLAQQED spatulas on amazon https://nymag.com/...
The experience of shopping on Amazon is getting worse, but the good news for Amazon is that the experience of shopping at physical retail stores is getting worse at a faster pace https://twitter.com/...
Amazing. (Also, if you live somewhere so shoplifter-ridden that you always need someone to unlock products for you, move to Houston, where it's happened to me twice in three years (both times baby formula), and I never bought from the shelves there again.) https://twitter.com/...…