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Posted on 22. August 2012 Written by Marcel Weiss

According to founder Mike McCauley, Amazon’s Locker program poses the greatest threat competitively, but he actually sees it as an advantage. “They opened up a whole new market for us because they have 30 percent of the commerce volume,” McCauley said. “The other scattered 70 percent don’t have the order volume to justify building a network of kiosks.” “In that way, we’re kind of like an open platform.”

Sorry We Missed You: YC-Backed BufferBox Solves The Problem Of Missing Packages | TechCrunch

Interesting new YC startup.

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