Amazon has the power to disrupt a number of high street and other businesses by delivering from its large warehouses in places such as Dunfermline, Fife Jane Barlow/PABunzlDeath by Amazon is a cheery index run by some too-smart analysts tracking the retailers that are being pushed toward the checkout of doom by everyone’s favourite etailer (or that most monstrous of corporate behemoths depending on whether you are a fan of how Amazon delivers the high street to our doorstep). But Amazon isn’t just about killing much-loved local bookshops or music stores. The company, which has started to look at the industrial, healthcare and office supplies market, has seen a $2 trillion business for the taking and said: “We’ll have some of that.”Last month, some analysts from Morgan Stanley took a look at this plan and working on the basis that Amazon either always wins or at the very least causes significant…

Source: The Times December 15, 2017 00:06 UTC