[asimpletune]

One explanation is this is the standard rollout of Amazon. First they undercut all the local options, and then once the population embraces them they flip the switch.

Amazon has always been about cash flow over profits. So they don’t really need to make money if that’s not yet one of the goals.

[ggm]

Aside from A/B testing, there may be insufficient profit in the Francophonie, to justify stuffing the shop front with dreck. This is not an insult, it's an upside of not being monoglot anglophone.