of brick and mortar businesses amazon will become more powerful than ever as matt stoller wrote this week like google and facebook amazon uses technology and data to sidestep traditional restrictions on monopoly power chances are amazon will use their whole foods leverage to force people into becoming amazon prime members they will also force every smaller establishment out of business like they've done with with competing websites and bookstores and more jeff save those said our goal with amazon prime is to make sure that if you are not a prime member you were being irresponsible staller. us dollars and points out this statement and the amount of power in pays is hands should frighten all americans what he implied is that you will have no choice but to interact with his institution to buy and sell goods that everyone needs on his terms with a amazon you push a button and everything in the world arrives at your door in thirty seconds and as long as you don't think about the destruction of lives an environment it takes to do that it's really cool. at the heart of it this is the existe