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@lyndal1838 wrote:

Don't be too sure of that.

Amazon in Australia has to operate under the conditions that have applied to Australian businesses for years.....high shipping costs to get their stock here, import fees and duties, high rental cost of B & M stores, high wages.....the list goes on.

 

The cost of doing business in Australia has always been high and always will be, mainly because of our isolation from the rest of the world.

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Also high costs to deliver from the warehouse fulfilment center*. A country as large as the US with 6% of the population doesn't have quite the same economies of scale.

* I haven't checked but I can't imagine they would spell it properly.