Amazon & Wal-mart: Get On With the Acquisition Already

By Paul Kedrosky · November 27, 2006 · ·

Okay, Wal-mart is seeing a same-store sales decline year-over-year while its web presence whiffed badly last week, and Amazon wants to abandon online commerce and be a provider of virtualization services — S3, etc. — to other companies.

Can we please get this damn acquisition over with already? I’ll even make introductions.

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Comments

  1. Pete Abilla says:
    November 27, 2006 at 12:44 pm

    Paul,
    You’ve got it all wrong. Internally, there’s much respect for Wal-Mart, but they are also the the company that many top-level Amazonians want to topple. Acquisition? No. Bitter and Passive Rivals? Yes.