Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Amazon's Reckless Bet: Hazardous Items Unfazed by Viral Scare" video.
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Yeah, you guys need more regulation... and regulation on corporate speech, that would disallow companies to do damage control. However, the problem is bigger. Amazon delivers to all over the world! There are things you literally can't find in local markets anymore. For instance, I bought a passport wallet on Amazon, because nobody sells those where I live. My dad wanted to buy these special tongues for our kitchen to replace broken ones, which we bought years ago in Italy, guess what. He rode Italy from Venice to Catanzaro and no luck. He didn't find it anywhere in Europe. This lasted for eight years of fruitless searching ended by one hour search of Amazon... Make no mistake, I believe, that change must come here, but I don't believe that companies are even capable of changing from current state of the affairs. It's written in too deep in their DNA. And you can't cause them complete revenue meltdown, because there will always be markets, where something strange or unique will be missing and they'll be delivering to, because local customers have no alternatives.
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