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Originally Posted by wallcraft
Slate has a new article, I Want It Today, that argues that Amazon's change of heart on sales taxes is associated with their plans for same day delivery in densely populated areas of the US. |
Unintended consequences - people need to be careful of what they wish for.
States get their taxes and Amazon gets same day delivery. Watch the mom and pops starting folding at record pace as Amazon and Walmart battle it out. Smaller national chains will also be hit hard by this. I wonder what local businesses think?
Amazon already has its own delivery trucks for
AmazonFresh in select Seattle area neighborhoods. If this same day program takes off, it wouldn't surprise me to see Amazon setting up its own delivery service across the nation. UPS's brown and yellow trucks will suddenly be confronted with a fleet of Amazon's black and yellow trucks.