Amazon dominates the market
The world wouldn’t be the same without two-day deliveries from almost everyone’s favorite online shopping site. Over the years, Amazon has acquired several other companies and recently, they even bought Whole Foods, a popular organic grocery store.
Many don’t know of the long list of popular companies that now belong to Amazon. This list includes major businesses like IMDB, Alexa.com, Audible, Box Office Mojo, Abebooks, Zappos, Goodreads, Double Helix Games, Twitch, Shopbop and Quidsi. When they also added Whole Foods to their arsenal, their plans became clearer.
Now they can compete with companies like Blue Apron, GrubHub and other food delivery services, being able to not only deliver an endless supply of home appliances and portable tools directly to your home, but now also sending food and spices when someone is too lazy to go to the grocery store down the street.
So far, Amazon hasn’t made much use of Whole Foods except for an extra income source. In fact, they haven’t made much use of any of their companies, considering how almost nobody knew about most of the companies Amazon owns. Hopefully we may see something done with all of Amazon’s numerous resources; they haven’t hinted at any big change in the company, so any predictions are simply speculation at this point.
With Amazon’s drones hopefully soon to hit the skies, a future where food is delivered right to your doorstep may not be too far away. It sounds convenient but Amazon, with so many companies up its sleeve, could basically start an empire. They would be responsible for almost everything ordered online, from movies, to videogames, to electronics and now even food. As with every corporate empire, there are always bad decisions.
With so much control over daily functions of society, it would most likely prove disastrous. Corporate decisions occur at the expense of the hard-working employees or the paying customers. Even when everybody is upset with Amazon, by then it would be too late, for they would already control to much.
Just as Apple and Google have complete control over the cellphone market, Amazon has the same level of control, if not more, over even more aspects of modern life. Although this has a chance of being a terrible decision, this doesn’t call for drastic measures such as boycotting Amazon. The best thing to do would be to wait for results on Amazon’s ventures. More action can be taken based off of the observations.
