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Not unless they sold the things I would otherwise buy. And that is unlikely.


What do you buy that amazon doesn’t sell?


Most of what I buy these days are services not goods. I pay to have the wheels changed on my car twice a year (winter versus summer tyres), insurance, house painting and maintenance, servicing for my car, electricity, water, sewerage, an internet connection.

As for goods, well I buy a new computer about once a decade and a phone perhaps twice as often, fresh bread, fruit, vegetables, meat, butter, biscuits, and tea, every few days or weeks.

No idea if Amazon sells all that but it doesn't seem so from a glance at their web site.


Amazon sells food, computers, cell phones.


My point was that except for food the goods purchases are rare events and also the food is not a lot so hardly likely to make much of a dent in my rent.

They sell fresh bread, real bread that is worth eating? Fresh fruit?

Actually of course in my particular case it's all theoretical anyway because Amazon has no physical presence here in Norway




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