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Mullins: Target's woes go far beyond the data breach

May 15, 2014

Amazon is getting into every business concept on Earth. Not just dry goods online, but fresh grocery delivery in more markets. It's on a tear signing up people for Prime memberships, and I just spotted one astounding data point from Parks Associates. Fully 20 percent of people in America with a broadband connection have signed up to use the Amazon streaming media app on their TVs, computers or tablets. That's insane! From zero a couple years ago, Jeff Bezos now has a direct connection into the living rooms of one in five Americans with broadband, and the growth rate is 55 percent a year!

The Amazon drone delivery prank got some chuckles (it was a prank, right?), but Amazon is adding “lockers” in more markets, where Amazon will drop products the same day or overnight.

From the article, "Mullins: Target's woes go far beyond the data breach" by Richard Mullins.

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