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Originally Posted by haertig
I also look at convenience. I try to group up all my drives around town to save on fuel costs and time. That means that I usually put something to buy "on my list" and don't go out to buy it for several days - when I have enough other errands to run to make a trip worthwhile. But I do look at Amazon and if I find that their delivered price is lower than the local price, and they will get it to me same day, then why not buy it from Amazon?
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To me that's not a good thing, if they can source it, pack it, ship it from a central warehouse to a distribution centre, pay to run the trucks and pay all the staff involved and it's still lower, how are they making a profit? That would indicate to me there are other negative costs involved, not monetary, usually extremely bad working conditions for staff.
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Originally Posted by haertig
We have several huge Amazon distribution centers near me and "same day" delivery is what I've come to expect. If not that, my order is typically here the next day. I have had a couple of orders where total elapsed time between placing the order and finding it on my doorstep is less than four hours. It's insane how fast stuff gets to me.
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Do we need stuff that fast though? Again what costs are involved and why have we all become (me included) a society that expects things immediately? why can't we wait anymore?
I've been looking at Amazon, it's business practices, accusations leveled at it and just all round how it operates as a business over the last few days, just out of curiosity really, spurred on by this conversation, and I have to say even though it was not the reason I shut my account down, looking into them more I'm glad I have shut it down now.
However I don't want to make out I'm some champion for ethical business, I am not, I knew Amazon was a bad employer for a long time but still chose to use them, I only dumped Amazon when their business practices effected me personally, so I'm no better than the next person.