AMAZON: 'WE'VE NEVER SAID WE HAD TO DO IT ALL'

摘要

On any other day, it would've been big news. Pressured to show a path to profits after years of losses, Ama-zon.com Inc. was to announce that dis-counter Target Corp. would open an on-line store on Amazon's home page this fall. Target would pay the e-tailer to sell products such as apparel and jewelry, and would hire it to run the Target Web site. For Amazon, the timing seemed perfect since the deal promised millions in high-margin business. Just one problem: The news crossed the wires at 8:39 a.m. September 11, six minutes before the first hijacked jet crashed into the World Trade Center.