<story><title>“Just walk out” technology by Amazon</title><url>https://justwalkout.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turc1656</author><text>They&amp;#x27;re only good because they were repeatedly given an infinite amount of money for 2 decades by investors while their retail operations lost money so that they could nail the implementation and the promise that they would figure out how to make it profitable.</text></item><item><author>heavenlyblue</author><text>They are only good because Ebay is pathetically bad.</text></item><item><author>altec3</author><text>And they didn&amp;#x27;t just do that with AWS. They did it with ecommerce as well. Become the biggest online retailer, nail the implementation, then get everyone else to jump on your platform.</text></item><item><author>MattDamonSpace</author><text>Yep. I&amp;#x27;ve been sitting here thinking Amazon was going to spool up tons of retail locations that leveraged their tech to create a massive moat that other Brick &amp;amp; Mortars couldn&amp;#x27;t possibly compete with.&lt;p&gt;In hindsight it seems obvious that the play was to &amp;quot;AWS&amp;quot; the whole thing: make yourself the first&amp;#x2F;best customer, nail the implementation, then sell it to the world.</text></item><item><author>boublepop</author><text>Aaaand there’s the play. Amazon wasn’t trying to compete with other retails stores by leveraging their tech edge, they were positioning themselves to becoming the single provider of retail checkout solutions for the future. You either opt-in to giving Amazon all your retail data, or you become the only old fashioned “wait in line to get served” store on the street.&lt;p&gt;And where is the competition? Is there anyone at all who can provide something like this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adenverd</author><text>Amazon effectively leveraged investment capital to do exactly what they said they would do - innovate, learn into the market, and improve iteratively. From investors&amp;#x27; perspectives (and probably consumers&amp;#x27; perspectives as well), Amazon has succeeded brilliantly.</text></comment>
<story><title>“Just walk out” technology by Amazon</title><url>https://justwalkout.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turc1656</author><text>They&amp;#x27;re only good because they were repeatedly given an infinite amount of money for 2 decades by investors while their retail operations lost money so that they could nail the implementation and the promise that they would figure out how to make it profitable.</text></item><item><author>heavenlyblue</author><text>They are only good because Ebay is pathetically bad.</text></item><item><author>altec3</author><text>And they didn&amp;#x27;t just do that with AWS. They did it with ecommerce as well. Become the biggest online retailer, nail the implementation, then get everyone else to jump on your platform.</text></item><item><author>MattDamonSpace</author><text>Yep. I&amp;#x27;ve been sitting here thinking Amazon was going to spool up tons of retail locations that leveraged their tech to create a massive moat that other Brick &amp;amp; Mortars couldn&amp;#x27;t possibly compete with.&lt;p&gt;In hindsight it seems obvious that the play was to &amp;quot;AWS&amp;quot; the whole thing: make yourself the first&amp;#x2F;best customer, nail the implementation, then sell it to the world.</text></item><item><author>boublepop</author><text>Aaaand there’s the play. Amazon wasn’t trying to compete with other retails stores by leveraging their tech edge, they were positioning themselves to becoming the single provider of retail checkout solutions for the future. You either opt-in to giving Amazon all your retail data, or you become the only old fashioned “wait in line to get served” store on the street.&lt;p&gt;And where is the competition? Is there anyone at all who can provide something like this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobwilliamroy</author><text>Did they really nail the implementation? I still refuse to buy anything that would go on or inside my body from amazon because I&amp;#x27;m worried about getting counterfeits.</text></comment>