[adventured]

You don't seem to actually understand Amazon's business.

First of all, there isn't even a remote threat to their retail empire. Everybody else is a drastically distant joke. They're already the size of Target, and they're still growing rapidly. Nobody stands a chance at catching them. Walmart.com continues to just flail in the wind. That means they're going to end up with a monster position that can't be assaulted in the next decade. A simple extrapolation reveals that in a matter of seconds. Just toss a mere 5 years onto their growth and they'll do nothing but pad their crazy lead over the competition.

They paid off billions in debt post dotcom bubble. How do you suppose they dug themselves out of that hole without generating tons of cash?

Where'd they get the $11.3b in cash they ended fiscal '12 with? How'd they pay for all those warehouses?

Answer: they produce plenty of cash courtesy of a very healthy business model

[kken]

>First of all, there isn't even a remote threat to their retail empire.

How about Alibaba? They already have more revenue than Amazon and eBay combined.