Isn’t it amazing how Amazon seems to have so much inventory and such a slick delivery system, to boot??
While other vendors are scrambling for product AND shipment expediency.
Almost as if they were able to plan ahead.
For some items, they are the ONLY supplier.
Fancy that.
Might hate Bezos on many levels, but it’s hard to deny he was a retail/business genius. Not quite up to the polymath Musk levels though.
It was only a few months ago when many people in Congress were crying that Amazon was paying too little for shipping with the USPS, either for last mile or for the full delivery. Now it is rare for one of my Amazon packages to go through the mail. I bet the same usual suspects are crying about Amazon taking necessary business away from the post office.
We are so screwed.
None of that requires a conspiracy. I’m working with a client here in DFW that is attempting to get a series of new exercise devices to market. Amazon has made themselves a supremely attractive distribution partner by making the extent of our customer side delivery interactions be “send it to Amazon and let them deal with it” - *for less than the cost of the company warehousing, packing and shipping it ourselves, Amazon does that for us.* We don’t even have to have a company warehouse, the contract manufacturer drop ships it to Amazon on our behalf. If Amazon decides to carry the item themselves instead of just being the fulfillment system and marketplace we sell through, they even deal with all the customer service for that item, reducing our costs.
No other distributor/reseller has anything nearly that attractive. Walmart’s Marketplace is a nightmare, selling *to* Walmart itself is even worse. Jet is trying but they’re still not good, etc. So we end up sending product to Amazon and if someone else wants the product in large quantities without Amazon being involved... well, we’d have to set up special measures and actually charge more.
When Amazon is making itself that attractive to work with and reducing costs that much on the seller’s end... yeah, it doesn’t take much to see why Amazon has the supply it does. No conspiracy needed.