Amazon laying off hundreds of corporate employees in rare cutback

Seattle Times ^ | 02/12/2018 | Matt Day

[discostu]

If you buy existing companies you deal with two problems:
FTC approval
Existing union contracts

Starting a new company from scratch avoids both.

[discostu]

I’m sure they have CPAs. They bought over a company a month last year, that’s bound to give you extra people.

[blackdog]

Building a billion dollar company on procrastination is a very scary reality. I don't know how Fred Smith sleeps?

Gotta give it to him though. Building value by enabling poor planning, lousy scheduling, time to produce inefficiencies, and capitalizing off of such bad habits sure has given him a good long run.

[G Larry]

At what cost?

FTC has no legitimate objection to a non-transport company buying into the market.

It is NOT consolidation.

Union contracts can be renegotiated with new owners.

[discostu]

Horizontal expansion is one the FTC gets involved in more and more. In the end they usually approve but the months of whining and hearings can be expensive.

Union contracts can be renegotiated but you’re better off not having them at all. Pissing contests with unions are only avoidable by not having unions.

[Dr. Sivana]

Building value by enabling poor planning, lousy scheduling, time to produce inefficiencies, and capitalizing off of such bad habits sure has given him a good long run. ,

It's true. Back in the '90s I did a temp office job for GE in Bridgeport, and I was asked to FedEx overnight a STAPLER! GE had a deal where they only paid $4 or so for each package in those days due to volume or something. But really ... a STAPLER?

[Theoria]

They are going to integrate all if their supply chains with such services. Food. Retail delivery etc. All under one roof