Wednesday, 27 December 2017

The Verge 2017 tech report card: Amazon

So many things happened in 2017 that it's hard to know where to get started when sizing up a wide-reaching tech behemoth's past year. So for Amazon, maybe it's best to start with a simple statement: it lowered prices on avocados.

Yes. In June, Amazon bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion and reduced avocado prices at its stores by $0.50 to $1.00, in a move that, generally speaking, pleased consumers. It also added more Alexa features and more and cheaper Echo devices in a series of moves that, generally speaking, pleased consumers.

And this is pretty much what all of Amazon's 2017 consisted of, at least from a consumer's perspective, walking through its digital aisles: making small but pleasant changes that improved the shopping...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/27/16819720/2017-tech-recap-amazon-jeff-bezos-prime-echo-alexa-video-whole-foods

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-verge-2017-tech-report-card-amazon.html

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