Yep. Amazon also looked ahead and planned for where the market was going.

Amazon built its entire business around online shopping and kept pouring money into it while traditional retailers like Walmart and Barnes & Noble still treated the internet as more of a side business.

The bookstore, Borders actually fucking handed Borders.com over to Amazon in 2001!! LMAO Then they realized their fuck up and got serious about their own digital business and e-books way too late.

Jus like the Netflix vs Blockbuster story.

Lemmy can hate Amazon all it wants, but Amazon saw where retail was going, bet heavily on it, and it worked.

I think it's a lot like Lemmy in that way. Lemmy would rather bitch about new tech, than take advantage of it. Just look at the hate hard-on that Lemmy has for AI. I see a lot of Lemmy posters saying they want to be amish, and give up tech. Yet they spend all day online bitching about it. lmao