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Nutek Jun 18th 2017 10:31 am

Re: Amazon news
 

Originally Posted by tom169 (Post 12275764)
Don't bank on it. Quite often I get prime pantry credit offers on Amazon and never has it been cheaper than Walmart/HT/Publix.

Yeah.. I don't think I would be looking to Amazon for groceries if price was a major factor for me.

That said, I wouldn't look to Wholefoods for that reason either, so I guess it doesn't make much difference. :)

Boomhauer Jun 18th 2017 2:04 pm

Re: Amazon news
 
How much profit did Amazon make last quarter from their retail business only?

I know they finally turned a profit last year but it was paltry compared to the likes of Google.

Bob Jun 23rd 2017 7:31 am

Re: Amazon news
 
They've been experimenting with a few test stores that don't have tills. Automatically add/removes items from your amazon cart as you put them in/out of your shopping cart in the store. They've been working on the tech in town.

Would work quite nicely for packaged lunch/dinner foods, bit more of a hassle for fresh bulk items though.

The biggest Amazon news was the quietly killing of the unlimited cloud storage. $60 was a bargain. $20 for 100GB of data a year and images aren't counted, so I switched to that as my redundant backup and it's still not bad value but a little annoying that it was done fairly quietly.

Giantaxe Jun 23rd 2017 7:58 am

Re: Amazon news
 

Originally Posted by Boomhauer (Post 12275825)
How much profit did Amazon make last quarter from their retail business only?

I know they finally turned a profit last year but it was paltry compared to the likes of Google.

Stock market still doesn't seem to mind - current share price is $1,001.


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