Brad Stone

Brad Stone
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No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.
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I don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare.
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Ultimately, Amazon is a weather pattern that disturbs everything around it.
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Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.
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I don't think we yet know - because it's probably not big enough - what exactly Amazon does to our cities, but whatever it is, I don't anticipate retail wastelands. If anything, it's maybe a wake-up call to retailers that they just have to offer something meaningful to customers.