TLDR: world=US
could author of headline be more self-centered? you know 95% of people on this planet don't live in US and most of them don't care about Amazon?
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I'm from India, and amazon is more relevant now than any other time here. The market leader in India is flipkart, Amazon a close second and a company called snapdeal a distant third.
Interestingly, in next few months if not days, there is going be a big consolidation (merger of flipkart and snapdeal, that is first and third) which is aggressively pushed by Softbank (investor in snapdeal).
As an aside, for a long time, local entities are asking for concessions against global players like Amazon and uber, but so far it has not gone anywhere. One of the reasons against this is most of the investor money in local entities is from abroad. Though it is true, flipkart truly pioneered online market (in India) and when it tasted success, amazon simply jumped in with its huge cash war chest. It will be interesting how Indian market will play out with respect to Amazon.
might as well end up as in china, where amazon is not blocked, but still it's irelevant compared to better localized sites
Yes, agree. in the article world = US. Its pure ignorance I have seen with people from US. They dont seem to know that other "worlds" exists outside the north american continent.
I'm in Europe and I buy over 90% of my stuff from Amazon.
Where are you and from which online retailers do you buy?
europe, i buy nothing from amazon, everything I checked there cost there more than in local chains/supermarkets/eshops, so I don't really understand hype about it, same goes for illegal uber drivers which cost more than licensed taxi ordered through taxi aggregator app
same goes for china where pretty much nobody use amazon with their 90s website design
Seconding this. I have never bought anything from Amazon. People here don't even consider it when making a choice. They just buy from allegro (our local eBay) and from thousands of on-line stores.
I don't know if Amazon has some cheap delivery here in Poland or do they ship everything from abroad.
BTW would you mind telling me some recent purchases and their prices so i can compare it and let you know
because when i checked tablets, mobiles and pretty much anything, everything was more expensive than in local eshops, if it's Chinese phone or some noname stuff then AliExpress is the king