TechCrunch | Simon Wu on How retailers can survive the Amazon era

While Amazon’s 2019 Prime Day was riddled with complications, from worker protests to antitrust investigations, the tech giant once again broke records with 175M items sold, surpassing both Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. In just twenty years, Amazon  revolutionized the logistics industry by fulfilling orders directly and offering its fulfillment services to third parties selling on the Amazon marketplace.