Matt Stoller: Why We Need to Break Up Amazon – and How to Do It (Naked Capitalism)

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2. I've started doing that myself...and it's a conflict

because for B-Day, Holidays...it's so easy to just go to Amazon and fill it out and send it and they remember your credit card.

But....we still buy our personal reads from our last TWO..(sadly) local book stores.

It's not just books with Amazon though. And, I still can't understand why people are all enthralled with Amazon for Household, Personal and Home Goods Products when the old Sears Catalog and J.C. Penney built huge Businesses on CATALOG SALES.

What's NEW about AMAZON that wasn't like us buying from Sears, J.C. Penny, LL BEAN, LandsEnd, etc. that many of us older Boomers used to buy from way back?

Is it the "Everything That's Old....Becomes New Once Again" Syndrome? What the heck is so great about AMAZON except their "Product Reviews?" and that instead of "Calling In Your Order" (like the old days) you can do it Online?