Amazon

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’ wealth soars to $200 billion US dollars. Bloomberg: July 2020.
Amazon market value: $1.6 trillion US dollars as of July 02, 2020.
“Mark My Words: Amazon Will Hit $3 trillion dollars in four years (or less)”. Sean Williams, TMF UltraLong: July 2020.
Politicians and locals need to start debating the impact Amazon digital sales are having on the local economy.
Manufacturers are now worried about Amazon and Walmart’s controlling reach to customers.
Every forecaster can see brick and mortar shops crumbling and can see that Amazon is eating everybody for lunch – the best that can be hoped for is that their real estate can carry them for another day.
Stolen package anxiety is very real for Amazon customers, this worry will disappear because our concierge makes personal deliveries.
Amazon is sapping the local retail economy.
We may not have to endure many years of early losses to win the locals over – Amazon has done the introduction to digital for us.
The coming headlines: “THE BIG SHOPS GOES SMALL SHOP TO TAKE ON AMAZON…”
The old and the new need to interconnect and be part of a new strategy in order to take on Amazon.
Amazon wants to use robots to serve you – we want to use real people to serve you. The robots will not be able to replicate a self-employed concierge with their judgement, common sense and experience.
We need a backlash against shops that are helping Amazon with drop-off points.
We need to see Amazon, both real and bad, and we urgently need to take action to deal with it.
Amazon will be rattled by our local-free-delivery by a personal concierge.
Many people feel that Amazon shopping reflects a loss of humanity.
“We are all becoming more and more accustomed over time to placing just one more order on Amazon”. “Little by little, that’s eroded all our shopping behaviour”. NY Times: May 2020.
We need to crush Amazon’s wish “its most fervent wish is to be taken for granted by shoppers”. NY Times: May 2020.
The inevitability of total Amazon control must be questioned. Customers need to rediscover Small Shop as a place to re-shop in order for many communities to stay alive.
There is a public expectation that we reduce Amazon’s power and it is being pushed by politicians of every stride – even president Donald Trump.
“Amazon which may be the largest fashion retailer in the United States.” NY Times: May 2020.
E-commerce is expected to jump to 25% of United States retail sales, from 15% last year. WSJ: June 2020.
Retailers need to acknowledge the severity of challenges taking on Amazon.
“Amazon accounts for over half of all new books sold.” WSJ: May 2020.
Locals have stopped shopping locally since the Coronavirus, only Amazon is flourishing.
It is a tough challenge to take customers away from Amazon.
Amazon has forced an extraordinary drop in sales for local retailers.
“Is the one place everyone is shopping indeed Mr. Bezos is potentially on his way to become the world’s first trillionaire because of the Coronavirus”. NY Times: May 2020.
Need to unite small and large retailers to provide a premium shopping experience to battle titans such as Amazon and Walmart.
Losing sales to Amazon demands a serious rethink of the way things are sold.
The position and strength moving forward have to be how to expand in the age of Amazon.
Amazon is about to collide with reality, with the consumer, fake products, fake reviews, flea market appearances, brown box over packaging. Local Small Shop will make things right for local – certified products and reviews, less packaging and more recycling – a personal service.
Part of a new wave away from Uber, door dash and Amazon.
Unify to better compete with Amazon.
Amazon made $20.4 billion on Prime Fees with 200 million subscribers in 2019.
The retail and restaurant industry is under more threat than ever before. It is for the public to decide how important these businesses are to local communities. In addition, both Investors and innovators need to work at bringing back customers and recreating a new retail experience – one that could prove financially rewarding.
Amazon extremely satisfied customers: 64% claimed such feelings in 2020. In 2015 87% were extremely satisfied. WSJ: June 2020.
Amazon will be competing against the single strength of a local concierge – the concierge’s capacity to a partnership with innovation and being able to provide goods and services on a vast scale by bringing Shop Small Shop back into fashion.
Our aim is to freeze Amazon’s digital sales out completely from as many communities as possible.
Shop Small Shop is being abandoned for Amazon at the community level.
The long-term impact of Amazon during the Coronavirus is going to be more far-reaching than we can imagine.
Independent shops struggle to survive in the Amazon age – personal touch is the only survival tool.
Sales will never return to local levels reached before the Coronavirus and the financial crisis due to Amazon’s power-grab.
This will really separate us from the rest of the pack – with no more brown boxes, Amazon will face a box backlash as customers become more environmentally conscious, eco-friendly and enjoy savings.
A major setback for Amazon is not being local – locals rejuvenate local services.
Direct to the local shop – adoption will be rapid – appeal to a younger, more diverse clientele who are eager to support local and excited to take on Amazon and Walmart.
Overnight we could shift consumers from Amazon to the local Small Shop.
Society is still receiving relatively little attention from the public, the press, and even politicians themselves on the damage being done for losing retail to Amazon (1.3 million packages to Toronto a day).
For every dollar, in wages, Amazon warehouse worker receives, Amazon receives $0.24 in public assistance.
Running Amazon – identify its result. Amazon threatens to turn shops small and large into a ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ retail that once was open to everyone -now being destroyed by a cool Amazon.
Concerns created by Amazon are shared by governments around the world, they create shop destruction which is ‘horrible for the world’.
All that retail is doing is watching the volume transfer to Amazon – it is terrible to let that retail flow to Amazon without even wanting to look at alternatives.
Amazon will be against the single strength of a local concierge – it’s capacity to a partnership with innovation and provides goods and services on a vast scale.
If you are looking for sure-footedness to take on Amazon, my three concepts will fill that desire.
Losing sales to Amazon has to be seen as a wakeup call to merge with urgency.
Shop Small Shop is back, and it has equal pricing to Amazon on many items.
Retailers have been hit hard by Amazon and volatility in consumer spending preferences.
We have to face Amazon fair and square – if not we will keep losing sales to out of country retailers.
We need to display a more sustainable option to Amazon plus a way to cater to environmentally conscious consumers.
Social damage from Amazon packaging is a real concern that only these new innovations can rectify.
There is no growth in sales unless we can slow down Amazon.
We need to unite to battle Amazon and Walmart.
Finding solutions to Amazon’s power has been documented as impossible by Walmart, Target and Kroger. Many shops are slow to grapple with new challenges.
Retailers need to be interested in avoiding Amazon’s power – but unless proven, the precious funds of consumers can lead to an interruption in sales.
‘I think there is a growing sense of an urgent need to find solutions to Amazon’.
Need to study Amazon’s impact.
We need to break the habit of Amazon.
Copying Amazon’s strategy.
Canadians and the Canadian government don’t believe we can take on Amazon.
The government has opened the door to Amazon.
The alliance is critical for facing Amazon.
More challenging to compete with Amazon.
We will make our shop worth considering over Amazon.
Amazon is decimating local shops.
There is massive uncertainty on what the world shops are going to look like in the future, between the virus and Amazon superpower in digital. The options are innovation and partnership.
We need to move with confidence to recruit the necessary partner talent and find investment to take on Amazon in a real fight.
Amazon and the Coronavirus are changing retail in a major way.
Let us see Amazon’s approximately 23% increase per year as a shop alarm signal that should force every shop wanting to improve itself, it is lots of market shares, let us not hide it.
Retailers struggle to take on Amazon.
All retailers have been battling Amazon but its roll-out in similar products and services have challenges that only innovation can equal.
Amazon single handily is changing and transforming retail – we need to be the next transformer.
We need to create a ‘switch points’ system from Amazon and our actions can have a lasting change in the future of society.
We will challenge Amazon, Walmart and local Big Shops.
Retail is dying fast and hard especially the Small Shop – Amazon is growing fast and big in a world of winner take all.
Concierge and shopkeepers discover that there is a cheaper and easier way to reach locals – Instagram for instance, personal shopping, food parties, waiting room computer access. This will make Amazon redundant and an outsider.
We need to play smart to win the locals back from Amazon.
A combination of partners would create a retail giant behemoth better equipped to deal with local retail in the digital era and take on Amazon.
We can offer shoppers options – services like Amazon offer: free delivery from the local concierge, personal attention is going to be over the top service.
We can do it together – to take on Amazon.
The era of independent shopkeepers is over. It is Amazon that plunges in the knife, digital as we know it today makes it impossible to continue as it was. Amazon swoops in with free one day deliveries.
With the right to be independent the world of local retail is over; it needs to be a rebirth, something very different – a lifetime to take on Amazon.
There is a clear indication from the government at the local level that Amazon creates damage to communities – the way is open for supporting the competition.
We are under siege – Amazon has jeopardized everyone’s shops.
It has been pretty much a nightmare taking on Amazon.
These innovations will give us the ability to take on Amazon.
To take on Amazon we must foster community – or fail.
They agree that the disruptive effects would be against Amazon and that it will reinforce the local economy of digital retail.
There is a consensus across the retail world that it’s no longer possible to take on Amazon. I believe that innovation with engineering challenges, of movement of goods from manufacturers to the consumer’s table, materials and designs will tackle Amazon’s superior system. “It’s not an issue of if but when”.
All retail other than Amazon faces a shaky future.
To keep yourself from being a relic, invite me to show you how to save your shop and be comfortable moving in the future as a disrupter of Amazon and Walmart, in a different shop moving forward.
A viable alternative to Amazon.
This is the breakthrough for taking on Amazon, we need to consider long term viability.
Changes in Small Shop mean competing against Amazon, serving digital in person, price match and 50/50 margin sharing.
The power of Amazon on communities cannot be discounted. It forces many long-standing neighbourhood shops to close.
The coolness of Amazon has grown in recent years as neighbours, on-line and in person, act as introducers to the beauty of online shopping.
Moving away from packaging hungry Amazon, in retrospect, is inevitable and sort of wonderful.
Amazon inflicts damage to both the local and national economy.
Our shops are a win-win for the environment but a blow to Amazon. We will provide a boom for local communities by actively engaging with community members.
Amazon is disruptive – an existential threat direct-to-consumers with no local input.
We need to be nimble and flexible to take on Amazon.
The threat posed by Amazon’s digital easy orders – social consequences of Amazon.
The breadth of Amazon’s power at all local shops demands as much new wisdom and competence and insight as can be brought into the shops.
Even if my proposal is not the best proposal, I can tell you what the worst proposal is, Amazon getting off competition free.
Department stores and grocery stores are trying to win over Amazon turf because they don’t have much choice.
A partnership will give us the scale we need to compete with the likes of Amazon and Walmart in shopping and advertising and delivery.
I want to show you how this concept will offer a more direct way to connect with consumers at a fraction of the cost. How can we compete as a group, riding the powerhouse of Amazon and Walmart and be strong at the local level?
We need to be optimistic that there are solutions to compete with Amazon. Let me demonstrate how we can do it together to benefit us all.
Many locals might decide that Amazon isn’t effective and decide to support the local Small Shop.
I no longer feel Amazon is committed to good customer commitments – the advantage of trust has become a liability.
Shops are in the mindset of desperation in their attempts to compete against Amazon.
This can have significant advantages- in cost savings, digital gathering, a multitude of options to make a profit. These will have a big impact on Amazon.
Need to play a more active role in finding and implementing action to take on Amazon.
Amazon has become the object of an increasingly bitter acceptance in the world. A number of forces – climate change, streets clogged by delivery vans, overworked and underpaid workers. This is how we are going to push for local retail participation through a digital platform.
A shift away from a high price feeling at the Small Shop and a future match on Amazon prices on digital sales. This is the best thing that can happen to locals, easy product and equal pricing. Margin 50/50 sharing with the concierge will encourage customers to shop local and away from Amazon who continues to overpackage their deliveries. Today small and large shops struggle to stay relevant in the digital world, to sell more diversified products and to continue serving diversity in product and service.
The lack of the fact of competition against Amazon has pushed local consumers into Amazon’s arms. In particular in lower pricing and delivery speed and operating effectively from a warehouse instead of bricks and mortar. It is Amazon that is shaping the retail of the future and playing a leading role in the country’s potentially lucrative retail market-making Amazon much more desirable in a digital shop. Innovation can change all that by making the supply chains smarter and making capitalism in retail possible for people with no capital.
The need for an alliance is more important than ever as the industry is claiming defeat against Amazon.
We face plenty of uncertainty about how to take on Amazon.
We need to fight Amazon locally and keep politics out of it with a level of structure and predictability.
Everybody will help to take on Amazon, we are here for the future.
Amazon has proven to the doubter, to the naysayer, that it is possible to sell one product at a time and make a big return.
Since we are all new, we have no worries about underfunded pensions, excess real estate, large debts that have hammered many of Amazon’s competitors.
We promise to treat you better than Amazon.
Retail braces for devastation, shops are closed, staff being laid off, refuse to pay rent, return inventory and Amazon is taking all the sales.
The long-term future of Main Street is also uncertain – change of habit may send more consumers to Amazon – investment in digital may suffer, prolonging local digital competition.
We need Small Shops to fight back against outsiders like Amazon.
Amazon is changing the landscape of Main Street.
Small Shops and Big Shops unite to take on Amazon.
In the absence of meaningful local retail – Amazon is free to dictate prices.
Amazon is depriving true Mom-and-Pop shops of digital sales.
Digital sales momentum at Amazon will pick up – surging ahead of all others.
Capitalize on innovation and partnership to take on Amazon and for greater opportunity.
Amazon has reopened the Small Shop business model. As Small Shops go through a rough patch, Amazon shares of digital sales go way up.
Today the shops are in limbo, but Amazon is piling on the sales.
Shops of all sizes are getting hit by the downturn, except Amazon – walk-in traffic faltered, slimmer margin leaves many on the edge in 2020.
Amazon is a tidal wave that is crushing against every shop, no matter how big or small it may be.
Retail is at a stand-still, the market is favouring Amazon. The locals are desperate to bring back local sales.
Loss of local sales to Amazon is at a crisis level.
Lost sales to Amazon create a ripple effect that slows down the local economy.
We need to introduce the best way to reset local retail operations in order to take on Amazon.
This is seen globally, that Amazon is behaving recklessly to distract local retailers.
To create a dominant position going forward we will have to distribute the margin 50/50. This type of structure will allow us to take on Amazon, which currently has more resources. We will create local acceptance with shoppers.
Retailers cannot turn a blind eye and say that’s not us- we can take on Amazon, but it has to come from us, it can be done.
We need to form a partnership between retailers, a partnership that would sell more products than any other retailer within 10 years. Providing the kind of scale that is essential to introduce new apparatus and concepts in order to keep up with Amazon.
No retailers are in shape to take on an aggressive Amazon.
If we lose Small Shops to Amazon, the market power will transfer to Amazon and everyone will suffer as a result.
What is important is to come up with a solution to Amazon’s power, the way to achieve that is to collaborate.
Amazon is forcing action from the remaining retailers.
Amazon places a tremendous financial burden on retailers that try to match pricing and delivery.
Amazon can’t replicate the experience of a live concierge servicing at the local level.
We will use technology to give us fair competition against Amazon and Walmart.
Amazon may see the concierge as insignificant in the larger scheme of digital sales, but we will convince locals that we help support the local ecosystem and it affects everyone personally.
Communities will become Small Shop starved if Amazon continues to go on competition free.
Big Shops bet on Small Shops to save themselves as many are faced with financial peril. Amazon moves on their territory with no competition to speak of.
Profit collapses, walk-ins disappear, Amazon offers one day delivery for free.
We want to give you less for your buying dollar business – that is the Amazon way.
Locals face a pushback at home from Amazon as it expands its global empire.
Amazon poses a threat to the local and national economy.
Offer an alternative to Amazon, personal connection, community benefit.
Causes consumers to reconsider Amazon.
Amazon creates uncertainty at the local level.
Amazon is an outsider and outsiders can easily fade away.
We need a shop that looks to the future that can take on Amazon.
A realistic blueprint for bringing shopping back to local. We need a common purpose to take on Amazon.
The damage Amazon is creating to Main Street is too obvious to ignore.
Listening and engaging with local consumers will be an essential part of defining how to take on Amazon.
Investors are needed to push retail to lower packaging, shopping footprint to the environment, increase competition with Amazon.
Amazon is delivering a body-blow to the entire retail economy.
Locals are held hostage to Amazon’s power to reduce prices and offer expensive deliveries to the competition.
Big Shops are in big trouble worldwide, no longer able to produce consistent foot traffic in the shops, Amazon pushing lower and lower prices, and Investors losing faith in yesterday’s retailers.
In the Small Shop world, sales lost to Amazon are considered lost sales. Retailers are wondering if they will be able to attract the same level of sales as in the past – let alone new sales.
Small Shops see consumers vanishing- going to Amazon.
Severe financial hardship is affecting local Small Shops when locals choose to shop at Amazon.
Many sales have evaporated and gone on-line to Amazon.
Need to change public opinion about Amazon and Walmart – Small Shop needs to be elevated to the host shop for variety, prices and services.
We need to collect and protect the strength Small Shops already have to take on Amazon.
The push to Amazon highlights how quickly the Coronavirus Pandemic has altered digital shopping.
Amazon has dealt a blow to the local Small Shop, threatening the closure of many shops on Main Street.
Amazon is turning into a popular destination during Covid-19.
Experiences with a concierge can be quite different from Amazon.
Defeating Amazon has to be real, it’s a big deal, but innovation gives us the opportunities that we need to take them on. We have big challenges ahead of us but taken together, these challenges can prove successful to stall Amazon and radically change local shopping.
Retailers are quite literally fighting for their life, for their survival when it comes to taking on Amazon. It is tragic when I have the solutions, however, no one wants to participate.
We need to keep Amazon awake at night.
We need to show that a cooperating move could actually work to chase Amazon out of town.
It is official, we are all about taking on Amazon and the future is local, we need to seize our competitive advantage in a challenging retail world.
Our partnership collectively will be valued to take on Amazon.
Amazon is causing concern; we need to offer real solutions.
Rising local competition to an outside seller like Amazon.
Retail carnage – featuring closures, bankruptcy and endless downsizing – Amazon is the true enemy of the local retailer.
It will bring customers and the concierge closer – Small Shop’s face-off with Amazon.
Locals need to wake-up to losing retail to Amazon. They need to be seen as a competitor, a challenger and not in-line with our local values.
Promoting an alternative model to Amazon – a departure from the previous approach that large is the only one that can offer value.
We, the locals, need to avoid getting trampled on by two superpowers – Amazon and Walmart.
Local sudden awakening to digital sales clout, and to Amazon taking value away from the local economy this creates profound discord with locals.
Need to realize that Amazon possesses an even more severe challenge – at local, regional, national and international levels.
Especially in today’s retail world where two major stores Amazon and Walmart have become so powerful and understand the consumer with the precision of their needs.
Need radical solutions for a retail, radical makeover. Accept Amazon is the destroyer, offers more selection, more partnership, match pricing, all local offerings, local growth and innovation.
A huge leap to replace Amazon as the cool place to digital shop – in order to take them on their needs to be a partnership of equals, combined product and service to give the consumers the everything shop.
Retail is going into survival mode as the Coronavirus Pandemic takes a toll on brick and mortar shops. The financial pain is growing for all shops large and small as they need to reset their shops to take on Amazon for the long haul – adjust for a reduced demand as communities lock-down their shops. Many Small Shops don’t have big cash cushions, and many will not survive as consumers switch to digital Amazon as sales slow and debt worries expand.
Right now, we have to invest in faith and trust in this new relationship to take on Amazon.
Issues are the same faced by large and small retailers – with shops closing due to the power of Amazon.
“Few companies are better positioned than Amazon”. “Amazon has a chance to be the hero”. “Could end the villain if they wind up putting people in harm’s way”. WSJ: Apr 2020.
Form a consortium to take on Amazon – is the only possible way.
The picture looks bleak – other than Amazon.
Our competition is Amazon. Shop smart, shop local, making shopping local count. Shop local as a local industry.
As retailers small and large are being decimated by the Coronavirus and Amazon, all experts say there is no single retailer effort that can overcome Amazon’s powers.
The retail challenges of today are to introduce a concept that can take on Amazon while building the retail of the future. Failure to do so threatens to remove entrepreneurship from society.
The Coronavirus is giving Amazon a retail advantage.
We cannot allow Amazon and Walmart to effectively close our shops on Main Street.
We will not over-promise, but we want to win you back from Amazon who is the outsiders.
Amazon is distanced from its customers, we are local.
Amazon gains from Coronavirus seriously jeopardizing local retailers threatens to end local shop dominance of retail sales. We need to integrate digital with local shops at a competitive advantage of being local.
Locals are urging the remaining retailers to use a variety of mechanisms to slow Amazon’s power. The simplest tool is the local concierge that will offer personal local services and variety. Historically, going to the local shop has been an American ritual – so much so that some communities shut down Main Street to traffic in order to welcome foot traffic sales.
We need to make it personal and memorable. We need to engage local trust very quickly and we need it more than we ever have to save Main Street from Amazon.
Stabilize local economies that provide necessary services and employ local people. It is in a retailer’s interest that shops meet Amazon’s challenges – otherwise we must abandon local retail and let my innovations die and say every shop is on their own.
Our big challenge is to take on Amazon, it has to be a common good over the coming year. To digitize from partnerships and scale up to digital retail profitability. We need to be superior in knowledge and innovation.
Our concept is better than Amazon at doing a better job locally.
Amazon’s power will turn the retail industry upside down. Today small and large shops have to stick together in order to have the strength to serve the consumers like yesterday.
Local retail has already weathered years of turmoil, they are under pressure to keep pace with Amazon while changes in technology present new challenges.
Better equipped to deal with Amazon, with the local concierge and shops can spread in the marketplace with speed and urgency. The right approach to local retail – shift to local responsibilities to support local.
Retail faces a serious problem largely because digital by Amazon penetrates the local shops. Many shops will be fighting for assistance to survive.
Amazon’s success has forced retailers to rethink the entire model. Amazon is a poor substitute for the real shop.
Doing like Amazon is still too expensive. To compete we can illustrate how Investors, thought a partnership, will bring us to tomorrow’s retailers and be capable of taking on Amazon at the local level with ease. Plus, acceptance by locals for the long haul will put us in a strong position to earn acceptable margins. We can almost say it is a concept with no risk. The concierges will come by the thousands to start their entrepreneurship.
The large retailer needs to team up with Small Shops to take advantage of their local connections to take on Amazon.
In an attempt to offset booming Amazon digital sales, it is more about the relationship with the concierge. This big and small alliance could prove to be the solution going forward. Taking the cool from Amazon’s wind.
Investors are more skeptical of large retailers, of their ability to take on Amazon and produce steady profits.
Worries over foot traffic in malls, climate change, consumer demands and Amazon acceptance. Retail is in the worst-performing sectors, never before has anyone seen anything like the Coronavirus.
Have a low operating cost. It could help us to take market shares from Amazon and Walmart. In 2020, more inefficient shops will vanish, some closing from the Covid-19 pandemic and once closed are too costly to reopen. This can create an opportunity for more local concierges. We will bring the shops closer to home to serve personally and save on excess packaging. Are we about to see a structural change in local shopping? It is a valid question and local entrepreneurs can take comfort in participating in a renewed shop.
Take local action to curb the environmental impact that digital shopping on Amazon creates at the local level.
Some shops shut down completely. This may permanently transform retail; it has triggered a deepening of concern about Amazon and many traditional stores fight for survival.
Amazon’s power should spark the grit and ingenuity of the retail industry.
Our competitive advantage is local – over Amazon the outsider.
Either we all meet Amazon’s challenge – or retail history will judge us.
Better develop partnerships in digital than a destroyed retail industry. Locals will be able to create internet connections that make Amazon look like relics. It will shift the power dynamic.
Amazon itself is just so destructive to the retail economy. Any innovations that can be used that directly mitigate the severity of Amazon can actually be beneficial for the local economy.
Amazon is digital shopping that really hurts Main Street. It is not a shop that needs to care about Main Street as locals do.
Shop closures have become a downward spiral which is what many communities worry about.
Amazon is facing pressure from governments for being so big and powerful.
The Small Shop dwindles in numbers and leaves Amazon and Walmart to fight it out.
It is very difficult to see our shops and communities directly affected by Amazon’s power.
There is absolutely no way Amazon wants to share profit margins with their delivery people.
Locals are not equipped to deal with Amazon’s consequences.
We need the power of capitalism to arm ourselves locally and globally against the threat of Amazon, by coordinating and overseeing private retailers and Investors best suited to accomplish the mission of local retail again.
It’s real service, not like Amazon – it’s people.
I have the blueprint for future shops. We need to create a shift away from Amazon as consumers are losing their trust. The concierge will bring joy by delivering to so many people.
It is devastating to Main Street as many shoppers become potentially destitute.
Need to find cost savings while investing in the capital needed to take on Amazon.
Nobody knows what the next few years might bring, but for sure it will bring more power to Amazon.
All we know going forward is that Amazon is going to get stronger.
Competing is a non-starter against Amazon, the lack of local shops makes customers go to Amazon.
We provide equal product and service to Amazon, the community benefits with a profit margin of 50% staying local versus an average of 1% from Amazon.
We are taking on Amazon, Walmart and all other local shop killers.
Governments show reluctance to take strong action to compete with Amazon.
Amazon is threatening Canadian shops. This is not enough to generate political action and get politicians to act.
Some governments and politicians outside Canada are turning famously against Amazon.
We are entirely driven by sales which motivate us to place customers ahead of Amazon deliveries.

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