http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/01/shoplifting-amazon-go-grocery-store.html
final image is v depressing
― rob, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
You can't get in without the app on your phone
Between this and MoviePass, I'm psyched to see myself already barred from IRL retail activity bcz I refuse to getr a cellphone. I know I'll live to see restrictions on my life as a citizen as well. #TryAndMakeMe
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
did anybody link to this yet? i just listened today. it MUST have come from this thread right?? well.. anyway
https://www.wnyc.org/story/amazon-antitrust-monopoly/
kind of mindblowing that amazon can crunch the traffic data from AWS to see which startups are doing good business, and then Amazon's venture capital arm invests in them or buys them outright
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
fucking hell
time to break up and/or nationalise amazon obv
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
Missed this from a couple weeks back: Jeff Bezos is the richest person in history
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
Like, I knew he was the richest person in the world but I hadn't quite made the cognitive leap that this likely meant the richest in the world ever.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
yeah that is stupefying tbrr
― rob, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
pretty impressive for the owner of a company that has yet to actually make any significant profit iirc
time to start sharpening the guillotines
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
did this ever get posted here? (too large to embed, sorry): http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/56abe654c08a80431d8bb4ef-1200-900/20160129_amazon_bi.png
― rob, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
too big to fail
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
what if amazon crashing is what does in the economy
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
amazon subprime morelike amirite
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
trademark that now imo
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
I was talking to my FIL recently about that, how Amazon's business model is very deliberately to not make a profit but rather to spend everything on eating the entire market for everything. Not sure if that means that there's some hypothetical point 20 years in the future where they actually do have monopoly power and start earning profits?
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
they will distribute 1/3 of america's food, clothing and leisure goods and employ a fifth of the workforce, leading to a semi-hostile government takeover#illuminatiisreal
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
Ordered stuff from amazon there it's good
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
power washer?
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
Alas
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
ffs
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
(haha, as if they give a shit about you specifically).
oh, but they do. because you have specific money and they want it. and the more they know about you specifically, the greater their chances of acquiring that money which is in your specific pocket and not someone else's. but I agree that they don't give a shit beyond that very specific point. if you broke your neck, they'd only try to sell you a hospital bed.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
Amazon is such a weird bloated machine now. Some items have become difficult to shop for just because there are so many different options, the sorting systems are so bad/broken, and the reviews are not reliable. E.g. you look for a certain kind of electronic item or light bulb and there are 30 different unknown chinese manufacturers and you're always taking a chance that you'll pick the one that's absolute shit.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
Just last night on Amazon, I discovered a) a professionally-packaged bootleg DVD set of a TV show that has not been officially released on DVD, and b) a PS3 peripheral (explicitly advertised as compatible with the PS3) which features one-star reviews going back several years from people who unanimously confirm that said peripheral does not work with a PS3.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
It's like a global flea market
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
if there's anything that links all the disparate "tech" companies now it's enabling brave new forms of con artistry
― rob, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
lol I should unbookmark this thread before I fall any deeper into the trench
you can get anything on there
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31UTUWZTFML._AC_US436_QL65_.jpg
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Yyy8DAoXL._SL1097_.jpg
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-6ECDPNBL._SL1097_.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
thisisfine.jpg
https://i.redd.it/pc6tbns245c01.png
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 January 2018 11:38 (six years ago) link
Yes but it doesn't just eliminate them for one day so that's why it adds up to 2.8bn I mean this is simple stuff folks
― i,CloudiOS (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 January 2018 12:27 (six years ago) link
billions of dollars and he still has no hair
― j., Thursday, 25 January 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
fp'd for baldphobia
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 January 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
bald-exclusionary radical feminist
― j., Thursday, 25 January 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
at least jeff bezos and i have one thing in common
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 January 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
which is to say i too am a billionaire
i fucking love capitalism
https://i.imgur.com/MUuZ9sr.jpg
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 January 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
that's a hell of a triple header headline alright
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 25 January 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
feel sick now thanks
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
I know that for all intents and purposes holding stock in Amazon is "wealth" but some part of me sees the number that counts all of his stock as personal net worth and thinks "fake money"
now if he had all those billions in hundos under a really big mattress, now we're talking
― mh, Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
By that definition probably almost any billionaire has a lot of his wealth in "fake money." Maybe more diversified fake money.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
all money is fake money
― conrad, Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
I guess the "fake" aspect is that Bezos couldn't just like liquidate his Amazon stake and suddenly have $113 billion in cash. But that's an almost meaninglessly large amount of cash anyway -- I don't even know what you could do with it other than buy another huge corporation.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
the NYT probably has a section for that now
― rob, Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
sad lol
― mh, Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
Imagine the luxury you could live in while trying to work out what to do with 113 billion
― i,CloudiOS (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
hey, it's not that much; a couple billion for food safaris, a couple billion for illuminati school, all of a sudden you're stretching just to pay for next week's jet service to the ponce de leon institute for a long overdue blood transfusion...
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
I would buy the Steelers and the Patriots and then make all the players kiss each other
― frogbs, Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
i can’t help feeling it’s plans like that which will prevent you from becoming a billionaire in the first place
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
Save the billions and the trillions will look after themselves
― i,CloudiOS (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
eh I'll just change my name to "Tony Blockchain" or something and wait for the checks to show up at my door
― frogbs, Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
Jeff Bezos should give out $100 bonuses to every single American.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link