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[Sherryh]

See Amazon will now be cutting ties to using post office for delierving their products now

Amazon uses USPS and UPS to deliver and pick their packages if its big returns like furniture

 

[Sherryh]

I will got to Walmart if I absolutely have to . I just don't want to be giving them money unnecessarily. I don't shop Target at all these days and haven't since 2000.

I never walk into Target . I love Sam's Club over Walmart.

 

[aleshanee]

I never walk into Target . I love Sam's Club over Walmart.

i wish i didn;t have to shop at any of them.... . we order most of our non-perishable foods and most other supplies from a supply company that delivers them directly to our house....we put in an order on average of once a week and it comes in on a pallet........ ...(i get the honor of unpacking it all and putting it all away...) ...thanlfully our building has a freight elevator and we have a key to it.....

but there are always some things we will need to buy directly from a store now and then... and being on an island like this none of them can seem to have everything we might need in stock at any given time...... so picking up items for a special dinner or project can involve a lot of travelling around to walmart.. target... whole foods... foodland.. safeway.... ...i have made stops at all of them in one day before. ........ . it;s frustrating... but would be even worse if i was trying boycott one of them.....

 

[sword]

The only thing Amazon can offer is customer service. That's it. They're a global retailer. A middleman. They are neither innovators nor producers.

The robotics and systems in a large magority of their automated warehouses were developed and built by Kiva Systems and Honeywell. Truly works of art. Efficient and reliable, They transformed warehouse operations. Amazon acquired Kiva Systems in 2012, and now exclusive use, essentially locking out all competition.

Rumors are that Amazon, has their sights set on Honeywell's warehouse automation division as well. This is about securing their dominance. If their competitors can't have access to the same systems, which, short of truly autonomous androids, are the pinnacle of warehouse automation, they're soon out of business.

Amazon is relatively new in the shipping business, however, and if FedEx and UPS don't watch out, they will undercut them too with the advantages that their non-union workers and drivers give them, as well as the low cost advantages afforded by other Amazon divisions like AWS.

Hopefully, these suits are just the beginning.

Amazon loses effort to dodge federal antitrust charges

A judge rejected Amazon's claims that the Supreme Court found the FTC had hoops to jump through before it could seek a permanent injunction in court.

www.courthousenews.com

Amazon produces many of its own products through numerous private-label brands, ranging from electronics (Kindle, Echo) and groceries (Amazon Basics, Happy Belly) to clothing (Amazon Essentials) and home goods, often under names that aren't obviously "Amazon" but are developed and sold directly by the company.

Some of their private label brands

• Electronics: Kindle e-readers, Echo smart speakers, Fire tablets, Fire TV.
• Groceries & Household: AmazonBasics (staples, electronics), Happy Belly (snacks, food), Solimo (health, beauty), Amazon Grocery (fresh foods).
• Fashion: Amazon Essentials, Lark & Ro, Goodthreads (clothing).
• Health & Beauty: Amazon Basic Care, Solimo.
• Pet Supplies: Wag.
• Furniture & Decor: Stone & Beam, Rivet

 

[Ekklesian]

Wow. They've really diversified.

Those brands are like the Best Choice foods canned or processed for Price Chopper. Amazon slapped their label on them and offers them at a cheap price (and you get what you paid for) but they're cheap knock-offs, manufactured by third parties, usually in China.

I guess if you want to call that innovation or production, you can.

Their kindle might be an exception. When Amazon was a bookseller, they contracted with someone to develop a reader, like Barnes and Noble did with their Nook.

 

[Ekklesian]

If their competitors can't have access to the same systems, which, short of truly autonomous androids, are the pinnacle of warehouse automation, they're soon out of business.

Well, well, well.

This is neither CG nor AI. This is an autonomous robot.