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Amazon’s Stranglehold on Online Retail

How a single company bullied its way to the top of the online shopping heap and is determining the future of retail.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance

June 12, 2012

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance‘s Stacy Mitchell has a new graphic up that provides a stunning overview of how Amazon.com’s reach has exploded since the corporation first opened its doors in 1994. Check it out below to see how a single company bullied its way to the top of the online shopping heap and how it’s determining the future of retail. Click to enlarge.   

Institute for Local Self-RelianceSince 1974, ILSR has championed local self-reliance, a strategy that underscores the need for humanly scaled institutions and economies and the widest possible distribution of ownership.


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