<story><title>Amazon to shut down its Amazon Restaurants business in the U.S.</title><url>https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-shut-amazon-restaurants-business-u-s/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pxtail</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m amazed and amused reading some replies - it looks like some people would love to live in a world where single corporation fulfills all their basic needs:&lt;p&gt;* restaurants from amazon&lt;p&gt;* home real estate market[0]&lt;p&gt;* shopping from amazon&lt;p&gt;* entertainment from amazon&lt;p&gt;* alexa from amazon, listening all the time&lt;p&gt;* education (already some basic form of it exists - alexa is used to answer kids questions)&lt;p&gt;Although many important key services are still missing: healthcare, insurances, banking.. etc.&lt;p&gt;edit: banking-related product already out [1]&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20152956&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20152956&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] Banking - Amazon.com Credit Builder - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20149304&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20149304&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon to shut down its Amazon Restaurants business in the U.S.</title><url>https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-shut-amazon-restaurants-business-u-s/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ronnier</author><text>Sad to see it go. I was on the original Amazon Local team for about two years, that ultimately turned into restaurants. A lot of my growth came from the people on amazon local, really solid people and good people, the product just had trouble catching on. That’s amazon, they’ll give just about everything a solid try and do their best knowing it may not work out.</text></comment>