killed a business robot line<\/a> after only nine months – Ms Kodali says that it is just one of a “whole graveyard of bad ideas” the company tried and discarded in order to find the successful ones.<\/p>\nBut, she says, Amazon may also have to focus on something else: the increasing attention of regulators, asking difficult questions like what does it do with our data, what environmental impact is it having, and is it simply too big?<\/p>\n
All of these issues could prompt intervention “in the same way that we rolled back the monopolies that became behemoths in the early 20th century”, Ms Kodali says.<\/p>\n
For Juozas Kaziuk\u0117nas, founder of e-commerce intelligence firm Marketplace Pulse, its size poses another problem: the places its Western customers live in simply can not take much more stuff.<\/p>\n
“Our cities were not built for many more deliveries,” he tells the BBC.<\/p>\n
That makes emerging economies like India, Mexico and Brazil important. But, Mr Kaziuk\u0117nas, suggests, there Amazon does not just need to enter the market but to some extent to make it.<\/p>\n
“It’s crazy and maybe should not be the case – but that’s a conversation for another day,” he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nShein and Temu are two of the brands from China that are competing with Amazon<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n\n
Amanda Mull points to another priority for Amazon in the years ahead: staving off competition from Chinese rivals like Temu and Shein.<\/p>\n
Amazon, she says, has “created the spending habits” of western consumers by acting as a trusted intermediary between them and Chinese manufacturers, and bolting on to that easy returns and lightening fast delivery.<\/p>\n
But remove that last element of the deal and you can bring prices down, as the Chinese retailers have done.<\/p>\n
“They have said ‘well, if you wait a week or 10 days for something that you’re just buying on a lark, we can give it to you for almost nothing,'” says Ms Mull – a proposition that is appealing to many people, especially during a cost of living crisis.<\/p>\n
Juozas Kaziuk\u0117nas is not so sure – suggesting the new retailers will remain “niche”, and it will take something much more fundamental to challenge Amazon’s position.<\/p>\n
“For as long as going shopping involves going to a search bar – Amazon has nailed that,” he says.<\/p>\n
Thirty years ago a fledging company spotted emerging trends around internet use and realised how it could upend first retail, then much else besides.<\/p>\n
Mr Kaziuk\u0117nas says for that to happen again will take a similar leap of imagination, perhaps around AI.<\/p>\n
“The only threat to Amazon is something that doesn’t look like Amazon,” he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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