Amazon said Tuesday it considered displaying import charges on items sold via its site for ultradiscount items, but that the plan "was never approved and not going to happen."
Do you (or anyone who might know the actual numbers) think this would do anything? The people in the US would boycott Amazon by not shopping on it, cancelling Prime etc. but that’s not really where Amazon as a company makes their money.
AWS is Amazon’s primary revenue generator now as I understand it and the retail portion of the business is more akin to a side gig in terms of numbers. Anybody with a better grasp wanna chime in?
Profit. Aws is profitable. Products make most of their revenue, it’s just that selling junk for cheap is low margin so it’s low profit. But their costs mostly stay the same whether they sell junk or not, so it does matter whether they sell a lot or not.
Do you (or anyone who might know the actual numbers) think this would do anything? The people in the US would boycott Amazon by not shopping on it, cancelling Prime etc. but that’s not really where Amazon as a company makes their money.
AWS is Amazon’s primary revenue generator now as I understand it and the retail portion of the business is more akin to a side gig in terms of numbers. Anybody with a better grasp wanna chime in?
Profit. Aws is profitable. Products make most of their revenue, it’s just that selling junk for cheap is low margin so it’s low profit. But their costs mostly stay the same whether they sell junk or not, so it does matter whether they sell a lot or not.