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0 pointsquickthrower25y ago0 comments

One way to outdo amazon in your niche is a better user experience. It’s not to hard seeing how bad amazons ux is. You need to attract people who value trust over pure price.

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ethbr05y ago· 1 in thread

At some point, rubber meets physical road though.

You can't offer 2 day shipping, if your supply chain doesn't support it profitably.

Amazon's genius was leveraging marketplace and FBA to scale the logistics they also used (gee, kinda like AWS) while taking a cut.

quickthrower2OP5y ago

Well that's market segmentation. Some people want it to come quick. Others care about other things. I doubt 100% of people place 100% priority on delivery speed.

In particular, I personally don't use Amazon much. Granted not in the US so maybe the site is different etc. But to me they are like an 'ebay' in terms of my trust in what they deliver, when sometimes I want a 'department store'. Now not everyone is like me but I suspect enough people are that Amazon isn't going to take over all shopping.

gogopuppygogo5y ago

If you think Amazon is bad try buying women’s clothes online from a discount retailer.

Amazon puts them all to shame.

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