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Ask HN: Any startup standing against Amazon?

4 points by n_t ↗ HN
More specifically, is there a challenger in USA against Amazon? While I'm sure Amazon people have worked hard to earn this stature, I hate monopolies (AMZN is 48% of retail business). Probably big corporates have already accepted their second rate position against this Goliath but is there any David still in making or worth supporting?

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smt88
Wayfair, Walmart, BestBuy, Google, and Target are all working very hard to beat Amazon in their respective categories. They haven't "accepted" anything.

Jet.com was a high-profile Amazon competitor that was acquired by Walmart a few years ago.

_Schizotypy
I don't think I would consider those "start-ups"
n_t
Yes, I'm not convinced either. They are neither startups nor appear to be competing hard. Jet.com was probably only good challenger which ran for sometime but I dont know what's their status now.
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smt88
I was arguing against the idea that Amazon is unchallenged. I wasn't calling those companies startups.

There aren't/won't be many startups that compete with Amazon as a general retailer because it would take unthinkable amounts of time and money to have access to the inventory they have. It's like asking if there are any oil startups challening Exxon.

whb07
Where were you when Walmart was the worst monopolist in town? Before that it was Kmart, then Sears. This is an overplayed tune.
n_t
Probably was not anywhere :) But that now that I am here, I am willing to support AMZN's competition, and Tesla's and Google's ...