“This week I also asked several stock analysts if they could see any potential competitive threat to Amazon’s online sales dominance. Some literally laughed at the question.” Farhad Manjoo on how Amazon’s long game yielded a retail juggernaut.

+ In part Amazon just kills it. But they’ve also been fortunate in terms of their competition. We’re a couple decades into this revolution and it still seems remarkably difficult for most ecommerce sites to create a decent shopping cart experience. And that includes some of the biggest players. From Bloomberg: Target and Wal-Mart see online sales growth slow in ominous sign.