Amazon Prime set to broadcast the Autumn matches

GPR - Rochester wrote: High Streets were always going to suffer as are out of town centres. The digital world is with us and like it or not it will be with us for the foreseeable future. Businesses need to stay relevant. High streets have been struggling for years with most populated by betting & charity shops.  Amazon provide a fantastic service with next day delivery to your door at very competitive prices. Time for High Streets to be re-developed into affordable housing for our growing population.

In fact the out of town retail parks are also suffering now from online convenience. As you say , converting town centres into housing and social/ eating / drinking and leisure facilities seems the best way forward 

Edited by reesytheexile - 12 September 2020 at 4:20pm

minded wrote: All Wales games for this tournament to be shown live on S4C. They'll be moaning next that there's no English language option.

roy munster wrote: It may be cheap now but as their monopoly grows the prices will soon hike up as they did with sky tv...The Amazon monopoly, has grown ever more disturbing during lockdown. The endless politicians that have popped up through the EU and devolved governments in recent times, have done nothing to stop it or even tax it. Theres too many politicians but even more lobbyists. Hence competition is wiped out, Bezos will one day become the first trillionaire if he doesnt divorce every year, meanwhile the high street is wiped out and the tax paid to the treasury for our public services will continue to diminish

Exactly Roy
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Accept for many reasons online is the option people will choose over a physical shop but when the case (as I just did buying a new shaver) I suggest try the site of a company (in this case Boots) who pay proper corporation tax. You might even find the price is the same or cheaper. Linked to what Roy says people now might always assume Amazon is cheaper for everything but that is not the case - they have just succeeded in getting people to think like that. In this case, having just checked what it would be on Amazon, I'm paying exactly the same price and free delivery from Boots to my house as well.

+ Anyhows - great to read about our matches being on S4C!!! sorted!

Wil Chips wrote: You have just identified Amazon's key strategic aim there. 45% of all on line product searches start at Amazon...they work on that as being their main KPI to grow. Amazon attract plenty of variable press covering, but they have been an employment godsend in these challenging times. Announced today another 100k full time workers being taken on in North America for example.

aber-fan wrote: minded wrote: All Wales games for this tournament to be shown live on S4C. They'll be moaning next that there's no English language option. That's what I'll be watching - Amazon can go and... you can fill in the rest. Diolch, S4C!

leave the package with a neighbour? 

SA14 wrote: Being reported Amazon are delighted with viewing figures and are now favourites to have the six nations with BT and Sky in the mix. I’d be amazed if it stayed free to air. I’d like Amazon to bid for the PRO14 too. Premier sports is abysmal.

Amazon's coverage was far better than Premier but streaming games from Amazon to my tablet, it would always stream in low quality and would never improve the quality to the point where you could barely read the score properly. Casted through the TV the quality was perfect but hope they can look to fix issue with mobile devices as there were complaints from others on social media. 

Edited by minded - 13 December 2020 at 3:51pm

I sometimes think do people go OTT about Irish bias but that bias is rife on Premier sports. 

Amazon's coverage, I mean technically, wasn't without it's challenges in the Autumn Nations Cup, but you'd back them to fix that pdq.

Much as I dislike subscribing to them, the game needs their funding and their coverage.