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Now here's an idea: Break up Amazon to get more shareholder cash

a_yank_lurker

@James 51 - The whole idea is predicated on avoiding anti-trust litigation supposedly. While Amazon is big it is only dominant in online retailing (about 50%) and significant in a couple of others. As a retailer it might command single digit share of the total retail market; dominant in a niche but not a real threat to a well managed retailer. Most of wailing about failing retailers is about incompetently managed companies and over built retail space. Neither issue is the fault of Amazon at all. At worst Amazon highlights the incompetence. AWS is a tough competitor but there are many others with the cash and (alleged) technical know-how to be fierce competitors. Here its more about getting your act together than AWS being a monopoly. Since Amazon is not a monopoly the 'analysis' is really demand to break up the company as you say "so I can make lots of money".

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