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Amazon Wine is shutting down at the end of this year, the retailer has just alerted sellers via email. The issue at hand has to do with the existing laws surrounding alcohol sales, which Amazon has unsuccessfully tried to change by working with regulators. The existing laws make it difficult for Amazon to sell alcohol as a retailer and operate a marketplace. That's something that's even more of a conflict now that Amazon owns Whole Foods, which also sells wine, not to mention Amazon's plans to expand its alcohol delivery business through Prime Now and Amazon Fresh.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/23/amazon-wine-is-shutting-down/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @03:49AM (2 children)
They couldn't just do like Uber, disregard local laws and drone-deliver a case of wine directly to a doorstep?
Guess not, because state authority in regard to alcohol is devolved from federal authority via the prohibition repeal amendment.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @03:59AM
What, Amazon drones don't have diplomatic immunity yet? But but, Bezos the Clown is a biiiiiiiiiilionaire. Can't he rub some of his own diplomatic immunity onto his drones?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @04:46AM
Amazon actually has some real business operations worth some real money, unlike that ponzi scheme you mentioned.