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Does anyone understand just how bad this statistic, if true, is?

It almost seems like there is room for somebody to disrupt Amazon by building a better e-commerce mousetrap and getting multiple retailers and distributors to co'operate with it.



Sears, Roebuck and Company used to own 100% of the market. Look at where they are today.


They had a good chunk of the toilet paper market covered too, their catalogs. Seriously. My grandfather would regularly tell me about having to wipe his butt with pages from the Sears catalog when he was a kid on the farm.




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