Amazon's retail problem is that it is failing the customer by using 3rd party sellers.
And in places where Walmart+ or Target circle are available I bet they are losing sales. I actually prefer Walmart+ and Target now.. but I am only N=1. I may do the whole foods delivery when it becomes available though so that would bring me back in to the Amazon fold.
Walmart+ InHome in particular is a great experience compared to Amazon Fresh. You can get regular Walmart+ deliveries for $98/year, but for another $40/year, you get unlimited deliveries by a Walmart employee who doesn't accept tips and makes sure they're delivering to the right address.
My only worry is that Walmart might be subsidizing the service, because as a customer I'm paying less and I'm happier compared to the gig worker version.
Amazon 1st party is and continues to be a loss leader. If they got rid of their 3rd party sellers tomorrow, the company would go bankrupt from the loss of B2B commission, fulfilment and ads revenue
Walmart also uses 3rd Party Sellers; I don't believe Target does. There's enough commentary about false/bootleg products on Amazon that it's no longer my primary destination for any purchases I need delivered.
He likes to point out that basically everything and anything a company may do is securities fraud. It’s almost parody at this point, which I think is his point. So it’s basically impossible to exist without committing said fraud by definition. That seems to be a problem — likely a structural one as well. At some point everyone is going to use that as a defense (or maybe they have already) and the sec/courts/congress are going to have some work to do.
It's probably intentional - securities fraud is a catch-all in the same way that tax evasion is an easy catch-all for all sorts of varied criminal activity which is much harder to prosecute.
My kid usually wants to know how I make decisions and never settles for a single "no" or "because I said so". I can tell them "because I want you to find some other stuff to play with", which might result in complaining for a while. Saying "not hard" is definitely not true in many cases. It's doable, but it's still hard.
Whatever works for your family. The more you set the boundary though the better. I guess the ideal parenting method is to reinforce good choices and not reinforce bad ones.
The best trained dogs are those trained only by positive reinforcement so…
