[kamaal]

>>Because then they run the risk of getting Amazon'd or Wal-Mart'd.

Your post sounds like Amazon and Wall-Mart are doing some thing wrong in the way they are running things.

And what is the risk you are talking about. Do you mean to imply Amazon and Wall-Mart are evil and have some caused damage to their consumers/customers?

[jbigelow76]

The original Wired story is addressing concerns about storefront distribution channels instead of traditional dealerships and how this impacts existing dealers. So my statement about potential negative impact if Amazon or Wal-Mart could become a distribution channel is from from the perspective of existing dealerships, not from the perspective of the consumer, many of which would jump at the chance to buy a car from Amazon or Wal-Mart.

[untog]

I don't think it sounds like that at all. He's talking from the dealers perspective, who will absolutely lose out in the case of being "Walmart'd".