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delectiyesterday at 2:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

I mean, their very first Leadership Principle is "Customer Obsession", so they do at least ostensibly want to be pro-consumer. Though yes, obviously those "principles" are only in service to making money.

https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-...


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thepryzyesterday at 11:20 PM

The assumption everyone seems to have is that the customer is the average consumer purchasing items and services on Amazon’s website. That hasn’t been true in more than a decade.

The real customer are the third party sellers and those using Amazon platforms.

terminalshortyesterday at 7:29 PM

The interests of customers and the business are aligned the vast majority of the time, but in those cases the phrase "pro-consumer" is meaningless because no choice had to be made. In the more unusual cases where they do not align, then that's a different matter.