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But that's the whole point, if both are the same on that aspect, and amazon has a larger catalog size, and I already have evening/next day delivery from amazon anyway, why would I bother going the to the toy store ?

The whole point he was making is, once amazon existed, they failed to compete with it. You're a physical store, you have the possibility to interact with people, offer them things they can't have over the internet, use it. If you don't, you're wasting a lot of money on prime rent.



As I posted previously, toys r us didn't just "fail to compete with them", they actually helped Amazon to build their own department by turning over responsibility of toysrus.com to Amazon.




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