You’re Probably Not the Amazon of Anything
Because if you were, you-know-who would have already eaten your lunch.
It’s good to be the king.
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There is an epidemic of companies comparing themselves to Amazon.com Inc. Let's put an end to this outbreak.
Uber Technologies Inc., MoviePass Inc., Expedia Group Inc. and Groupon Inc. are among the companies that have expressed similarities to the e-commerce titan. There's a company that says it’s the “Amazon of scientific supplies.” Another has referred to itself as the “Amazon of the pharma industry.” (Amazon announced on Thursday that it was buying a mail-order pharmacy, officially making itself the Amazon of the pharma industry.) One company jokingly called itself the “Amazon of dentistry.” There are at least three claimants to the title of the “Amazon of travel” — Expedia, Italian travel website Wanderio and Irish airline Ryanair Holdings PLC.