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Originally Posted by pl001
However I will maintain the opportunity was there.
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Hard to argue against that.
20 years ago there was no Amazon.
The opportunity was there for the taking by anybody who realized that the internet could do for mail order retail what the railroad did for Sears Roebuck in the 19th Century.
What Bezos did could have been done by any *competent* operator willing to take internet retailing seriously.
Now, competence in management is a fairly high bar but not an unreasonable expectation for a national retailing chain so the real advantage Amazon had over its roadkill and also-ran brethren was that Bezos takes the internet seriously. He did so in 1995 and he still does today.