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plumeria11/04/20252 repliesview on HN

In short: because they don’t want to become Toys “R” Us.


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MBCook11/04/2025

Private equity was a huge part of why Toys “R” Us died.

More on topic, my personal suspicion would be that AIs get a lot of stuff wrong, unsurprisingly, and so these orders end up with a higher percentages of returns or people claiming they didn’t buy them or other customer service issues.

Onavo11/04/2025

True, but it's not really existential for them given that most of their profits are actually from AWS. The grocery and dropshipping business has thin margins.