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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/
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @03:06AM (10 children)
When's Amazon gonna sell weed?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @03:38AM (9 children)
When is Whole Foods going to sell weed so the drunk bitches who go there for wine tasting events can get high at the same time.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @03:55AM (8 children)
When marijuana is legalized everywhere and weed is sold at Whole Foods, you people will still find a way to make it illegal for me. That is what you do. You motherfuckers.
Funny story. When I was in college, referendums were held to ask students whether the school should make a deal with the city for free bus rides for students. Of course the referendum passed. Because it passed, they had a second referendum which was rigged to fail. The second referendum passed anyway. Students got their free bus rides. I voted in both referendums. Did I ever get my free bus rides? Of course not. You motherfuckers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @04:07AM (6 children)
I love your bitter and antisocial tales. You are making winners out of all of us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @04:44AM (5 children)
This AC went to Market, and flubbed it badly, and so this AC went "Wee, Wee WEE!" All the way home. And then the Wolf huffed, and clouded, and puffed, and blew you. Metaphorically, of course. So, what was the topic, again?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday October 26 2017, @04:53AM (4 children)
Focus, mate, will yea? We were taking about weed on Amazon.
You get it know?
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Of course you don't get it, it's not available yet.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @06:40AM (3 children)
But, you know, having an Eastern European Ex-pat telling me to "Focus, Mate" , is just like tossing ma digerridoo into the old billibong! You call that a knife? Australian wine is very fine, for them's have know no others!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @06:49AM
Problem solved by immigration, many of them have nown other wine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @11:04AM (1 child)
It's billabong, your limnology looks tired.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @11:50AM
One thinks the proper word would be "lagoonary"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @01:41PM
Just because everyone wants something, it doesn't mean it's a good idea (see Communism).
(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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Thursday October 26 2017, @04:41AM
Until yesterday when it hit the news they were shutting it down.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by lx on Thursday October 26 2017, @05:38AM
Imagine Amazon Wine combined with Amazon Key, and add an Amazon Dash button in the mix. You'd have the perfect setup:
10 PUSH BUTTON
20 GET WINE
30 GOTO 10
Paging dr.Skinner...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bradley13 on Thursday October 26 2017, @11:28AM (1 child)
Alcohol regulations in the US are pure protectionism. Sort of like what Tesla is encountering with car dealerships. Basically, you can be an importer *or* a wholesaler *or* a retailer. Pick one. Suppose, for example, that you want to import whisky from a special Scottish distillery, and sell this to customers over your website. If you choose, for example, to do the import yourself, you must pay a wholesaler to take your bottles and hand them to a retailer, who hands them to your customers. Wholesalers and retailers are only allowed to work in specific regions, typically one state. So actually, if you have customers nationwide, you may have to contract with up to 100 other companies.
Nuts, really just totally nuts.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday October 26 2017, @11:39AM
It gets worse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by Techwolf on Thursday October 26 2017, @01:23PM
Amazon could have taken advantage of this. Offer the wine to all website visitors, then at checkout, if not allowed to sell wine there, phone numbers of the congress critters to ask why Amazon can not sell wine there. Get your customers to change the law instead of trying to lobby all the local governments.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday October 26 2017, @02:15PM
I would have used it if it was legal in my state : /
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 26 2017, @06:11PM
They're merging with Abuse, which is down the hall.