Well, I I'm calling one of the few that have like I love I fully and completely

Embrace Amazon. So I have this debate actually on my Facebook page my personal

Facebook page with friends and I said hey how many of you think when you shop

on Amazon that you're supporting a small business. People were like no you're

just buying from the big guy no it's just big so I'm like you're absolutely wrong

you're absolutely wrong. One time a malicious seller actually bought out all of

our inventory so we had nothing to sell and then at the end of the season once

it was over they returned everything. So not only do we not make any money but we

lost out on all the revenue for the holiday season as well. I'm just guessing

that it was a competitor who else would buy you know like a hundred dozen

napkins right and then just return them. You've got large competitions selling

lower prices with levels of convenience you can't deliver versus a community

minded small business who is building community in both economic and

non-economic ways and that's something that Amazon is working really hard to

erase. This is on point a Magna Chakrabardi and we've arrived at episode three of

our series Amazon the Prime Effect where we're examining how Amazon is

changing everything about how we live work and shop. In 2018 more than

275 billion dollars of goods were sold on Amazon for products Amazon sells

itself and third-party sellers who use the platform. Collectively it's all

called Amazon Marketplace. There are about two million independent small and

medium-sized businesses that sell through Amazon. In 2020 Amazon made at

least 80 billion dollars on those service fees alone. So today we're looking at

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