Amazon finds it hard to make friends it will crush later: opinion

Amazon is taking over the world. And paradoxically that may hurt Amazon's ability to take over the world. 

It's been clear for a while that Amazon's ambitions know few bounds. Sure, Amazon is a global shopping mall. But it's also making its own household products like baby wipes and batteries, becoming a silent giant in advertising, opening its own bookstores and grocery outlets, perhaps offering Internet service, entertaining us with streaming music and TV, and tackling package delivery by land, sea, air and drone.