{"id":1311,"date":"2012-08-08T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2012-08-08T12:24:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:24:26","slug":"amazon-extending-its-tentacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/08\/amazon-extending-its-tentacles\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon extending its tentacles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s New Secret Weapon: Delivery Lockers<br \/>\nOnline Retailer Expands Use of Cabinets for Package Deliveries<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390443545504577567763829784538.html\">http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390443545504577567763829784538.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spoke about Amazon&#8217;s increasing influence <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/14\/amazon-evil\/\">earlier<\/a>, here it is again.  It seems I failed to blog (or at least am failing to find the post) that Amazon was now showing willingness to collect state sales taxes and are now setting up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/small_business\/2012\/07\/amazon_same_day_delivery_how_the_e_commerce_giant_will_destroy_local_retail_.html\">distribution centers everywhere<\/a>.  That almost certainly will doom most local retailers, including nation-wide chains, unless they aggressively can manage their sales channel to take advantage (or create an advantage out of) their bricks and mortar existence, though that doesn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/23\/target-going-the-way-of-the-dinosaur\/\">seem highly likely<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So when does Amazon become an evil monopoly?  Or has it happened already?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s New Secret Weapon: Delivery Lockers Online Retailer Expands Use of Cabinets for Package Deliveries http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390443545504577567763829784538.html I spoke about Amazon&#8217;s increasing influence earlier, here it is again. It seems I failed to blog (or at least am failing to find the post) that Amazon was now showing willingness to collect state sales taxes and are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/08\/amazon-extending-its-tentacles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon extending its tentacles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}