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Amazon To Enter Wine Business (techcrunch.com)
24 points by kf on March 7, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


The real question is will it be able to use its firepower to open any doors for the wine industry. Alcoholic beverage shipping and sales laws in America are still stuck in the dark ages.


I wonder what effect the product recommendation system is going to have on pricing and availability. The wine industry is very susceptible to information cascades, which is why you have people paying twenty-five bucks for a bottle of Cloudy Bay.




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