Is Amazon becoming too powerful?

Amazon is worth more than $350 billion. It's run completely off of the internet and has very few original products and yet it's worth more than businesses with hundreds of stores and a large online catalog. Amazon sells almost everything. They have buttons that will automatically ship things to your house, they sell groceries, they can have things shipped to you that same day. The services they offer are unbeatable. They don't compare to anyone else. Amazon offers unmatchable services. Even if another company attempted the low prices and fast delivery of amazon  there is no way to match their reliability and prices. Many people do most of their holiday shopping there and much of their time buying other things. Amazon has complete control of a market it created itself. It’s become bigger than was once imaginable and become a staple part of American’s lives. The first place people look for something to buy is amazon. Amazon has a lot of power and every opportunity to abuse it.

Amazon has become this super company that is unmatchable in many different ways. It has complete control of anything it needs control over. It can drown certain brands and promote whatever products it needs to. There is no one to challenge them and they can do close to whatever they want. As the consumer, this isn’t sustainable. Our society puts us in a place where big companies will take advantage of this kind of control and power. Amazon can make big mistakes and still maintain their following because there is simply so much of it. If a large chunk of amazon’s buyers decided to drop the company, it would still have enough to support itself.

Amazon can make huge decisions that will make a huge impact on our society. If the company decides to change something important, the world will notice. The company has a large impact on our society. We have given them this power and we have little opportunity to take it back. At the moment, this convenience is helping the world find cheap, fast alternatives, but that can change in the blink of an eye.