New book from an Amazon Insider I can't wait to read

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Inside the Brutal Business Practices of Amazon—And How It Became “Too Toxic...

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The Everything War by Dana Mattioli

Review in Vanity Fair:

Inside the Brutal Business Practices of Amazon—And How It Became “Too Toxic...

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The Everything War by Dana Mattioli

Review in Vanity Fair:

Inside the Brutal Business Practices of Amazon—And How It Became “Too Toxic to Touch” | Vanity Fair

I, too, am eagerly anticipating reading this, because our friend @Chimanimani’s 17Apr24 SAS thread (linked below), re: Mattioli’s and Nassauer’s WSJ article on Big River shenanigans, has piqued my interest.

[WSJ] Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals

Staff went undercover on Walmart, eBay and other marketplaces as a third-party seller called ‘Big River.’ The mission: to scoop up information on pricing, logistics and other business practices. By Dana Mattioli and Sarah Nassauer For nearly a decade, workers in a warehouse in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood have shipped boxes of shoes, beach chairs, Marvel T-shirts and other items to online retail customers across the U.S. The operation, called Big River Services International, sells ar…

I do not enjoy observing train wrecks, in any event - much less when I am a passenger - but I do appreciate gaining knowledge on how to proceed, come what may…

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by Dana Mattioli

Yes, definitely looking forward to this!

[WSJ] Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals

WSJ writer and book author Mazzioli appeared on CNBC to discuss this. She called into question whether Amazon is even truly customer obsessed, calling the Marketplace an “unregulated bazaar” of mostly small business 3P Sellers that Amazon was as happy to exploit as they were their large competitors. The host asked many of the questions raised here, too. Best part? It’s only 5 minutes Amazon is not only customer-obsessed, but also competitor-obsessed: WSJ’s Dana …

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I’m pretty sure that nothing in that book will be news to most of us here. It is VERY NICE that this is getting exposure though. Hopefully the bull ■■■■ that Amazon does, and who they allow to play spreads like a novel virus within the general population.

That’s the only way real change will ever happen. When it affects Jeff’s pocketbook and more importantly, the stock price.

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Calling their undercover unit “Big River.” What could be more obvious!

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Calling their undercover unit “Big River.”

What could be more obvious!

Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe?

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Touche!

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And yes, Amazon is selling this book on its web site.

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And yes, Amazon is selling this book on its web site.

“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”

• Attributed to Vladimir Ilich Lenin, but perhaps made up by Marx, who did the attributing

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Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe?

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“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”

• Attributed to Vladimir Ilich Lenin, but perhaps made up by Marx, who did the attributing

Or mayhaps by one of the many sycophants who attached themselves, way back in Red `48, to the still-flying anti-capitalist flag that Marx & Engels unfurled with their seminal work, Das Kommunistische Manifest, which continues to embrangle Human Society down to this very day.

#TeachYourChildrenTruth.