{"id":351,"date":"2021-01-31T14:42:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/31\/mighty-amazon-looks-all-but-unassailable-as-covid-continues\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T14:42:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T13:42:49","slug":"mighty-amazon-looks-all-but-unassailable-as-covid-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/31\/mighty-amazon-looks-all-but-unassailable-as-covid-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Amazon looks all but unassailable as Covid continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos\u2019s company is set for sales topping $100bn last quarter, and while rivals are nibbling, its position looks secure<\/p>\n<p>The earliest references to the \u201cone-stop shop\u201d emerged during the first decades of 20th century as the fast-growing US economy spurred rapid retail innovation. A single location for various products provides obvious benefits: removing the hassle of travelling around town to visit different stores.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos redefined that logic for the internet age, making Amazon a dominant (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/jan\/15\/amazoncom-and-big-five-publishers-accused-of-ebook-price-fixing\" title=\"\">perhaps ambivalent<\/a>) force first in selling books, and then in pretty much everything else. Before 2020 Amazon was a phenomenon, but the coronavirus pandemic has made it all but ubiquitous.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jan\/31\/mighty-amazon-looks-all-but-unassailable-as-covid-continues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos\u2019s company is set for sales topping $100bn last quarter, and while rivals are nibbling, its position looks secure The earliest references to the \u201cone-stop shop\u201d emerged during the first decades of 20th century as the fast-growing US economy spurred rapid retail innovation. A single location for various products provides obvious benefits: removing the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/31\/mighty-amazon-looks-all-but-unassailable-as-covid-continues\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mighty Amazon looks all but unassailable as Covid continues<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}