Posted on 01/30/2013 9:04:00 AM PST by Biggirl
Amazon’s been losing money for quite a while now, IIRC.
RE: Chicago
I know we’re not supposed to post from the Onion, but they’ve published a satire called “Chicago’s Annual Homicide Drive Off To Most Promising Start In Decades” that’s actually funny, if sadly true.
The best part is you don’t have to pay tax either.
I have a golf cart enclosure on the way
doors, windows and the bag where clubs anchor is enclosed too
Chicago honor student Hadiya Pendleton, who participated in Obama inauguration festivities, shot dead just blocks from her school
I hope this deer antler thing doesn’t cause Ray Lewis to have to miss the Super Bowl.
Rut Roe
I wonder where I can find a list of the children shot in Chicago in 2012. Anyone know?
Amazon shipping is amazing!! You can even select Ground and it usually arrive in 2-3 days. I even had one item show up in a day over the Christmas holiday and I selected Ground ship.
According to their annual repport, they made $1.15B in 2011 and $631M in 2011. Their 2012 numbers will be available in April.
Yes, they have had a decrease in profit, but the most recent data shows that they are making money, not losing money. Admittedly, they have a very tight margin on their $47B in sales/services.....
They have a “Saved for Later” policy, where a small-priced item isn’t shipped until the total order reaches a certain $ threshold. They’ve done it to me a number of times. I’m not a “Prime” account member, so I don’t get that low-$ shopping/shipping option.
“...their friggin’ insidious browser cookies follow us around ...”
Oooops; that’s Google, not Amazon.
The Prices, no tax and shipping makes it hardly worth going to the brick and mortar stores.
The Rut part of my post was a poorly executed play on words intended for all our Freeper hunters. :)
Hello BigGirl...How’s CT with Governor Moron (aka Malloy)?
Does anyone use Amazon payments?
They’re trying to get me to use it in my online shop, as an alternative to Paypal.
How’s he gonna get the helmet over those antlers? LOL. I could never be a pro athlete of any kind taking that stuff; I hate needles. Armstrong’s arms/butt must look like a pin cushion. Gives me the creeps.
Giant PING List.
Without me on the PING LIST!!
my God...this is horrible
Not all companies expect or even desire profit from all of their brands. Sometimes, they will sell a brand name product at a break-even point or even a loss if it means that they can pick up market share. Once the market share is of a substantial percentage, they can then raise the costs and make up the past lost profits.
Sony did this with televisions. Sold cheaper, decent quality TV's and put the American television industry in the ash heap of history.
Have been doing this myself with my company. We still make money, but we used our resources and technological expertise to help us live with a much smaller profit margin than our competitors. Our competitors have either started mimicking our processes or they gone out of business. Frankly I was amazed and a little shocked at the margins they were making. While I haven't made any friends in the industry, we went from zero to a substantial player in our region in under five years.
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