[dalai]

Amazon cutbacks according to this: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/04/amazon-to-clos...

[kristopolous]

It might be a good move for Amazon to roll up retail and just do cloud stuff. That's supposedly where all the money's at.

It'd probably improve their balance sheet and public image.

[urthor]

Not at all.

Amazon's edge is the cross sell.

The Amazon brand is known worldwide because of the retail. The retail business is an extremely valuable behemoth.