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		lazide 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusi... Nah, Amazon got big WHILE all the other retailers were huge. Amazon was nothing, and the other retailers sucked so bad (consistently) that Amazon was able to eat their lunch and crush them. Amazon didn’t win because they were huge. They got huge by winning. Now, they can afford to be shitty (unfortunately), which is actually helping local retail near as I can tell.

foobarian 5 months ago [–]

> Now, they can afford to be shitty

I dunno, I think it's easy to forget just how bad it used to be. I'll take "cheap junk" I can get off Amazon for a few bucks even today.

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