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Saturday, April 18, 2020

Does Amazon Sell too Well?

Noted exactly this recently, ordered a couple of common things, seemingly not at all virus related, and I got a message back saying they were unavailable.  Never before.  More at Inc.

Amazon Is Changing Its Website To Do Something Truly Unimaginable
Sometimes, you have to stop and wonder if your technology is actually helpful.
By Chris MatyszczykOwner, Howard Raucous LLC@ChrisMatyszczyk in Inc.

Absurdly Driven usually looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek.

Retailers are clever manipulators of psychology.   Online retailers take it to an almost sinister new level.

It's as if they can make us have an impulse, then satisfy that impulse within nanoseconds.  But does this manipulation of algorithms and human gullibility have its limits?

I only ask because Amazon has reportedly started making its technology do something entirely unprecedented, something that few could ever have imagined. 

It's configuring its website to prevent people from buying so much.

This sounds like twisted madness. Yet, as the Wall Street Journal reported, Amazon simply can't cope with demand during the Coronavirus crisis.  ... " 

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