"Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online"
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The real power sits in the pairing of “find” and “discover.” “Find” flatters the shopper’s sense of agency, as if you’re in control, efficiently retrieving what you already want. “Discover” does the opposite: it implies Amazon will surface wants you didn’t know you had. That’s not a storefront; it’s a curated attention machine. The line makes recommendation engines sound like serendipity, turning algorithmic nudging into an almost romantic promise of surprise.
Context matters. This is the late-90s/early-2000s thesis of Amazon: scale as destiny. “Destination” borrows from travel and tourism, recasting commerce as a place you go, not a transaction you endure. It’s also a land-grab statement from an era when the internet still felt like a frontier and “anything” sounded plausible rather than ominous.
Subtext: trust us with your browsing, your data, your time. If Amazon can sit between consumers and “anything,” it doesn’t just win sales. It becomes infrastructure.
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