Jeff Off: Are Bezos and Amazon unstoppable? – Ros Taylor finds out

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Amazon is so dominant that the US government wants to break it up. Jeff Bezos’s empire has been described as an e-commerce monopoly – that harms consumers, sellers and the retail landscape. Senior lecturer at Lancaster University, Dr. Renaud Foucart, joins Ros Taylor in The Bunker to find out how a US court decision could impact online shopping around the world. “You cannot open a small business and compete with Amazon. You would need billions to even consider it.” – Dr. Renaud Foucart “There is an agreement across the US political spectrum that they need to deal with big tech monopolies.” – Dr. Renaud Foucart “Arguably, Amazon is the thing that saved the unique traditional bookshop.” – Dr. Renaud Foucart www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Robin Leeburn. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.0	Hello Hello and welcome to the bunker you'll need to know on news and politics
1:08.0	seven days a week I'm Ros Taylor. Without me quite realizing it Amazon has become part of my daily life. I didn't really want it to, but here I am reading almost every new book on my Kindle, ordering cheap vitamins, reluctantly asking Alexa questions while my hands are covered in flour.
1:26.6	You probably wouldn't be surprised to hear that Amazon is the UK's biggest online retailer.
1:31.3	But it's not just number one, it's bigger than
1:33.9	Sainsbury's and Tesco combined. It sells 69% of all books in
1:38.9	Britain and it has an extraordinary 90% share of the e-book market. And that is just the UK.
1:45.4	Amazon controls 38% of all online retail in the US. A million and a half Americans
1:50.9	work for it and by revenue it's the fourth biggest company in the world. Should we let a
1:57.4	company get this big? Do we want to stop it getting any bigger? And if we do,
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