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Maybe Amazon is Not the Future of Retail

Maybe Amazon is Not the Future of Retail

It's time to admit Amazon is a failure in physical retail stores.

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Michael Spencer
Mar 03, 2022
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Amazon is a beast and is sure to take over top spot from Walmart in the coming years as America's biggest employer. However, it may not have a great physical future of Retail. In fact, Alibaba and JD.com have done much better in China in physical retail while mirroring them in the future of logistics.

Amazon certainly seems to have failed in physical ret…

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