[minthd]

I think the core of luxxotica isn't manufacturing.

It's being a 2 sided market,same like ebay - a meeting place between most brands and most consumers.And we know that those types of businesses are very tough to attack, and probably even more so offline.

In a way, similar to walmart, but luxury brands don't fight through lower prices, so it might enabled luxxotica to ask them not to sell lower at any other place. In a sense this luxxotica monopoly is great for luxury brands, so i could even imagine a scenario where luxxotica tells to each brand "we're building a monopoly on glasses in the u.s., and we want this place to be the ideal place to sell luxury goods ... , please help us" - why won't they help ?