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Webvan is back!

Webvan - ValleywagHoo boy. It was one thing to see the return of Pets.com. Then came Flooz 2.0. But all joking aside, Amazon's resurrection of the Webvan business model should scare the bejeezus out of us all.

Yep, Amazon's taking a cue from one of the most flammable of dot-com bubble burnouts and mailing groceries to your home, according to Valleywag's big sister Lifehacker. Oh, it's not that big of a deal. Amazon can afford to waste some money mailing out organic fair-trade potato chips.

Get your groceries from Amazon [Lifehacker]

7:00 AM on Fri Jun 16 2006
By Nick Douglas
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  • Ta-ta-ta. I know that it is an easy analogy but Dogster is no pets.com. 1) There ain't any sock puppet anywhere 2) The company has been generating cash flows almost since the very beginning, and has been profitable for months 3) It does not sell pet food.

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