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How does a bookstore go from being a bookstore that now controls the internet's infrastructure and now my healthcare?

I don't know but money isn't the answer. Back then, in 1980's Germany book wholesellers Koch, Neff & Oetinger and Lichtenbrink pioneered robotic storage, and for very much the same reasons as Amazon. They were logistics giants that would deliver your book overnight, but they did not go on do dominate the world.



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