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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly one significant difference is that Sony have a large retail presence, and operating a retail business is MUCH more expensive in Europe than in the US. Higher wages costs, higher property and business taxes, etc.
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Exactly. That is the kind of local overhead I'm referring to.
Amazon runs a couple warehouses, a few data centers, and contracts pretty much everything else. They bookkeep everything as an independent profit-loss operation.