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Old 05-19-2012, 09:04 AM   #136
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Harping blindly and shrilly about Amazon (or Walmart or any other low cost retailer) is to willfully ignore the rest of the ways those retailers satisfy consumer needs. Amazon (to focus on the industry whipping-boy) isn't just a low price leader, they are also a customer service leader, they are a delivery speed/cost leader, they are a catalog size leader, they are an accessibility leader... Alll those things matter to consumers to one extent or another
You make good points, but in the end miss the main point. A B&M store can out customer service and out anything Amazon, but if the customer just gets the benefits of the service, then leaves the store to buy it cheaper on Amazon that night, all the B&M store has done is help Amazon to its detriment .

No airy talk about "new business models " or the "need to adapt" is going to solve that.
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Old 05-19-2012, 09:14 AM   #137
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No, that is called consumer choice.
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Old 05-19-2012, 09:25 AM   #138
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And yet Target signed an agreement with Apple to have mini-Apple stores in Targets. That doesn't have anything to do with the move to not sell Kindles, Sony's, and other e-readers. All those Apples products can be used to surf the web and price shop, which makes Target's supposed outrage with Amazon more then a little silly.
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Old 05-19-2012, 03:15 PM   #139
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What the French Minister is saying is that in effect, such collusion should be legal in order to promote a higher societal good than cheaper books.
Then this is where the issue turns Political.

He's using this as a tool for implementing Social Policy, which, presumably is what his electors want him to do in his part of the world.

But, over here in more-capitalism-oriented N.A, this would be considered, dare I say it: "Socialism", which I would expect to generate immoderate responses ranging up to apoplexy!

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