No Wonder Amazon is Worth Untold Billions

Don M. said:
I found a small part wearing out on my riding mower today....I'll need to replace it before Spring. Amazon wanted $12, plus $4 shipping.. I found the same item on EBAY for $8 with free shipping. I always check Amazon, and I usually find a better price elsewhere.
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I do the same...
 

hollydolly said:
so do you think it's because of ease of access that you prefer to shop offline ?
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Probably has a lot to do with it but I also enjoy getting out in the community and away from the same old, same old at home. Breaks up the day. If I had to drive an hour or more then I'd likely go online more often.
 
I order occasionally from Amazon. I don’t want to pay for prime. I order enough for free delivery. Even though there’s a warehouse in my town it frequently takes 4-7 days to get things.
 

Murrmurr said:
It was a simple idea - buy stuff, store it in a warehouse, take orders for stuff, deliver it.
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What Amazon are doing is nothing new, what is relatively new is the resurgence of customer service. Amazon Logistics works with local and regional delivery service partners across the country to deliver Amazon packages to customers seven days a week. The Amazon Logistics service compliments their current large, national delivery partners and provides additional capacity as more and more customers use Amazon Prime's next day delivery benefits.

Note the word partners, these are companies that agree to sell their goods and services through the Amazon name, Amazon do not allow for any shoddy service, believe me, they crack the whip.

The system used, to get an order from supplier to customer, is known as hub & spoke (look it up) it's a system used by others and it works very well. I just wouldn't want to be the delivery driver turning in at six am to find that I have about a hundred deliveries to get through. Many of those drivers are self employed, and do they earn their money.
 
horseless carriage said:
What Amazon are doing is nothing new, what is relatively new is the resurgence of customer service. Amazon Logistics works with local and regional delivery service partners across the country to deliver Amazon packages to customers seven days a week. The Amazon Logistics service compliments their current large, national delivery partners and provides additional capacity as more and more customers use Amazon Prime's next day delivery benefits.

Note the word partners, these are companies that agree to sell their goods and services through the Amazon name, Amazon do not allow for any shoddy service, believe me, they crack the whip.

The system used, to get an order from supplier to customer, is known as hub & spoke (look it up) it's a system used by others and it works very well. I just wouldn't want to be the delivery driver turning in at six am to find that I have about a hundred deliveries to get through. Many of those drivers are self employed, and do they earn their money.
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I thought Amazon owned their delivery trucks...the big greygreenbrown ones with the Amazon half-smile on them. Are you saying the drivers aren't on the Amazon payroll? Maybe that's why some of them have the cahonies to snap a photo of the package at your door, then pick it back up and take it home. But Amazon fires them if they're caught doing that, don't they.

Maybe I'm not clear on what you're saying about that part.

That hub & spoke system is what a few members of our Department of Transportation have proposed as a nation-wide designated trucking system, to keep massive trucks off our auto-ways. I've always been in favor of the idea, but it's never been approved because they can't decide how they would be funded and who would be responsible for maintaining them; trucking companies or the businesses that rely on them. Neither of them want that responsibility, and neither does the Dept of Transpo. And taxpayers are split, as are the cities that might have to tax them.

Meanwhile, driving your car behind an 18-wheeler is a lot like driving behind a freaking building; you can't see the road ahead and truckers can't see you until you're in their side-mirror's sweet-spot. Plus, heavy trucks are really hard on auto-ways, not to mention your personal vehicle doesn't stand a chance if you collide with one of them, even if it's minor.
 
Ad without those trucks, all your stores would be pretty empty. EVERYTHING moves by truck, sooner or later. The there's the fact those driers aren't exactly happy people follow so close they can't see them. Back off.
 

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