Amazon is the mall Best Buy is paying rent too. It’s not a store itself but overhead the store pays.
To use your example if the cost of the cables is $2 and the selling price is $20, Amazon’s rent is $10 of that. Leaving $8 as Best Buy’s profit margin.
NAK@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly. Amazon us essentially running a huge chunk of a retail business for their customers. The people schedule buying and selling products. The reason you pay these fees is so you don’t need to run a website, build and maintain warehouses, pay staff like HR, etc etc