Posted on 01/19/2020 3:13:50 PM PST by SamAdams76
There are now over 100 million Amazon Prime members.
Therefore, a lot of trucks are needed to get those good from here to there and from there to here.
I'm seeing more and more of them out on the roadways.
I bought a book from them in 1995 when they were just a small outfit. It was the 1994 edition of PASSPORT TO WORLD BAND RADIO.
Yes if you believe carbon footprint is a problem
However soon what is supposedly convenient will become required.
And you will be trapped and forced to live where you can walk only.
because you wont have or afford the credits to be allowed to use your own transportation.
not yet, but certainly our children and grandchildren.
Get a fricking grip!
These things don’t get thought through.
With gains come losses.
We are a nation of consumers ( locusts ) and now the insects are feed in their nests. Forget making or creating anything, no, lets instead celebrate home delivery.
Delivering ChiCom goods right to your door. The PLAN thanks you.
The import coolie made goods and process it with unfedrpaid workers 1/3 of whom are on public assistance.
https://www.united-states-flag.com/state-mississippi.html
You can pay for a new flag made in the USA from the above link.
Or you can pay Amazon and get one as well.
But you can put up the MS flag on your about page here on FR for nothing.
I can’t believe Sears totally fumbled this concept. Heck, they darn near invented it.
There must be at least 10 huge trucking warehouses within a 20 minute drive from my house, and more on the drawing boards. We’re about an hour from NYC, so I’m guessing product transfer mecca.
*** Shhh! Customers are not supposed to know that Amazon stiffs customers a lot of money. ***
At Christmas I returned an item to Amazon. It was a re-order, but not the same as the original item. Free return- just hand it to the guy at the UPS Store. The moment I handed it to him, my account was credited for the returned item. I was impressed.
*** they wont lose money, their prices will rise
and there will be no more choice.
That is their sweet spot. ***
I just purchased two new grease filters for my range hood. Two of them were $26.00. They are nicer than the original ones.
I looked at other places, and just one filter was $87.00.
I guess the big question is WHY?
*** The import coolie made goods and process it with unfedrpaid workers 1/3 of whom are on public assistance. ***
I think most stuff on Amazon Prime is via businesses who pay to have their goods in Amazon’s fulfillment centers. Sellers pay to list, pay to utilize Amazon’s fulfillment service, and pay shipping fees, and return fees...or so I am told by my friends who sell their own product lines on Amazon.
So did I (early 2000s). It was wet when it arrived (but the shipping carton was dry). My first experience with Amazon wasn't positive.
Speaking of radio, the book was Border Radio. A fascinating book, to say the least.
*** I guess the big question is WHY? ***
I guess because, in my case, Lowe’s and Sears replacement parts think they can charge more than Everything Filters which was the Storefront I bought from on Amazon. It came via Prime 2 Day.
FWIW, GE no longer makes the filter I needed, so nobody was selling original GE ones.
Amazon might not be too good for sellers who use Amazon:
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/problems-for-amazon-sellers/406984
The import coolie made goods and process it with unfedrpaid workers 1/3 of whom are on public assistance.
As for underpaid that is a matter between the worker and management. In today’s job market workers have choices.
Back in my younger days when I got out of College I could not find a job in my field. I went to work for a temp agency as a manual laborer working for just above minimum wage. It was enough to hold me over until I found a better job.
If Amazon was around back then I would have jumped at a chance to work for them it would have been much easier then the hard labor I had to do.
Fortunately it only took me a few months to find a job in my field and my pay went up by a considerable amount.
It is all about choices.
Thanks for the info.
Fortunes will be made by people who have the skills to add the “thing” homes will need so that the drones can land. The consensus is that this “thing” will likely be added to many of the roofs of regular dwellings. The drone lands then some way the package is moved to the ground. Maybe someone smart will come up with another option?
Mark my words, 36 months out from today the sky will be filled with more flying objects than you can count and some of them will be moving people around. I’ve seen some of the technology and there is no way to stop what’s coming. You are going to look up and it’s going to be like Blade Runner.
I paid LL Bean an extra $15 to get an order quicker. UPS failed to deliver, they wanted a signature. LL Bean said it was driver option. UPS wanted me to drive to some area to pickup the package. I guess they forgot what THEY do.
LL Bean refunded by $15 and I got the package about 12 days later then expected.
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