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Another main reason for people arguing that Amazon is destroying small businesses is that Amazon’s convenience is almost unbeatable. You can order something from Amazon from the comfort of your own home. Not only that, it can be packaged and shipped to your house in only a single day! When that option is available, why would anyone ever feel the need to go inside of a store? It is so much easier to just order it online and wait for it to come in the next day! It is sadly making things like toy stores, video game shops, and hobby centers things of the past. Places that were once places of wonder for the young, and places of escape for the old, are being turned into relics of the past. As Robb Mandelbaum of Forbes puts it, “To be sure, Amazon, with relatively low prices and speedy home delivery made possible by its enormous scale, has changed the way many Americans shop. My wife, for example, would be content to never set foot in a store again. Every week, a parade of boxes from Amazon, Target, and elsewhere arrive at our door.” This is a sentiment not exclusive to Mandelbaum’s wife, in fact, according to research done by TechCrunch, about 35% of people would prefer to shop online then in an actual physical store. This is a number that has been rapidly growing overtime, especially as Amazon has been able to lower prices to be equal, and even sometimes lower, than products found inside physical stores. It doesn’t help that some people are also willing to pay more money for a product for the convenience of it being delivered directly to the door

This means that even if a small business were able to lower their prices beyond that of Amazon’s, they would still be losing business from those who simply prefer the convenience of online shopping over going to physical stores. What else can a business possibly do if lowering its prices isn’t even enough to get them the customer? Small businesses almost stand no chance against Amazon; how are you supposed to compete with a business that is more convenient, and even in some cases has lower prices then you can afford to put out. It’s an unfair and unwinnable game that has snubbed out many up-and-coming businesses before they ever even had a chance to reach their full potential. A main counterpoint commonly used to portray Amazon as a helpful tool for small businesses is that Amazon sometimes partners with small business owners to sell their products. While this is indeed true, it ruins the chances of other small businesses who deal in the same business as the ones partnered with Amazon. Not only that, but Amazon actually tends to cut these businesses bad deals. Rhonda Abrams of USA Today points this out in her article when she writes, “It's important for makers and small businesses creating consumer products to control the pricing of their products, or big retailers like Amazon or Walmart will set your market pricing for you,” advises Jules Pieri, co-founder and CEO of The Grommet. “Makers are ecstatic when they get a call from a buyer from Amazon or Walmart, but they are notorious for setting prices that are unsustainable for manufacturers.” It is clear that Amazon does indeed

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help some small businesses, but even when it comes to the ones that they are helping, they sometimes cut these small business owners terrible deals. So, while there is definitely an argument for as to why Amazon could possibly be helping small businesses, I feel that it is not nearly as strong of an argument, nor do I think that it has remotely as much non-Amazon produced evidence supporting it. Ever since Amazon had started its rise to power, many small businesses had been able to avoid be overshadowed by them by filling their own niches. Tech stores offered tech support, book stores had people who would help you find interesting books, and so on. These things used to be out of the realm of a faceless corporate giant such as Amazon, as it was not really a physical company. As time moves forward though, Amazon is looking to spread its reach farther. It has invested in hiring tech supporters, as well as building physical bookstores. These services were some of the only thing keeping some of these small businesses relevant, but now, Amazon has begin to try and monopolize even these things. As Kate Taylor, Mary Hanbury, and Dennis Green of Business Insider put it, “Barnes & Noble reported in January that sales dropped 6.4% during the holiday season. E-commerce sales also suffered during the critical period, dropping 4.5%. Amazon has also grown its physical bookstore presence.” If Amazon has affect one of the largest Bookstore chains, Barnes & Nobles, so drastically, immagine what kind of damage it could be inflicting on the average small, independent bookstore owners across the country and even the world.

this is horrible

Kate Taylor, Mary Hanbury, and Dennis Green also had this to say when it came to Amazon’s branching off into tech support “While Best Buy has been under siege by Amazon for years, the electronics retailer long had one advantage: the Geek Squad of employees ready to help customers with technical difficulties. However, in July 2017, Amazon started rolling out a sort of Geek Squad of its own, in the form of Smart Home Consultations.” This will most likely have a huge effect on the business of not just Best Buy, but of many of the smaller tech support based companies as well. This new found branching off of Amazon into even more types of businesses will most likely spell doom for many of the small business owners who had relied on these niches. In conclusion, while Amazon can help select businesses, it hurts many others who are passed over by them because they can not afford to sell their products for as cheap as some of the bigger businesses partnered with Amazon.. Amazon is impossible to compete with if you are just a small business owner, they have prices that are impossible to match if you are trying to make a profit, as they can always find the producers who are willing to sell their products for the cheapest. They also already have a monopoly on a majority of products out there, as Amazon is easy to use, affordable, and convenient for almost everyone.

thanks max

Your intro into quotations is terrible

i really just went back and typed random shit until I hit the page number

no wonder alot of it is samey

this is how my teacher told me to do it

alright

It's pretty bad

what ap class is this for

something something college writing

oof

This is like a 4 on a ap scale

like an AP essay

not the full test

that's what i got on my essay for the ap thing funnily enough

"this is pretty bad" "This is like a 4"

what

Man, I shit out essays better than this

though on the "reading compehension" i got a 112

rusp come on man

ap essays are like out of 7s

oh

i see

I'm not good at writing

well

collegiate writing

I can write fan fiction

Most AP tests are graded like this

Imagine amazon as a small pretty gay boy

then write away

50 Question Multiple Choice Essays Averaged Together Each essay of different types worth different amounts

the ending paragraph is 100% the worst

and then combined into a 1-5

i just gave up and started writing down filler

this grading scheme is retarded

oh i forgot this

Although Amazon alleges that it attempts to help by giving small businesses a platform to sell their products on to reach a wider audience, it often attempts to give these business owners bad deals in an attempt to maximize profits. Amazon is also taking steps towards controlling as well as monopolizing even more of the niches out there, going as far as to take on things such as technical support, as well as creating physical bookstores for people to buy books from. Amazon is sadly spelling the end for many of the small businesses around the world, and it is most likely preventing some people from even thinking about creating their own businesses. These are the primary reasons as to why I believe that Amazon is a negative for small businesses as opposed to a positive force that helps them out.

why can't they just give a percent grade

It's not pika

Because they're averages of the whole nation

hey i've gotten a 100% on one of my essays in this class

though on the other ones

not so much

your nation on average is a 7

makes sense

which makes yours a 2

so you can convert the scores sure

I still need to do citations

good thing i never close tabs

>not doing citations while writting

what the fuck

But for AP tests they do these numbers because they're strict levels for people to get into colleges

if i do that i'll lose my train of though

my brain is very one tracked

percentages can and are used in the same way though max

numbers just you know, take a 100 and rescale it to a 7 on a 7 scale

I'll make sure to tell you guys what I got on this essay

pika the essays are scored that way because they need to hit certain points

the colleges dont see that score

im talking about the 1-5

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If you don't have a thesis for example

Just seems weird to me, our system works without all this shit

that's automatically a 6

I clearly have a thesis statement

Pika it's for college averaging

it's not a normal system

yes, and we have colleges and universities too

my teacher said so!

It's to show that you, vs the rest of the nation is prepared and compeleted this college course

yeah and in canada an F here is passing

what