• tilgare@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Of course the shipping isn’t free. But probably, the shipping to a handful of more localized facilities and then to the home directly is cheaper than the cost of shipping one case of that product to each of 4000 brick and mortar locations, where it might sit, tying up capital at each one for weeks before selling.

    The article uses a 40% split too - I seriously doubt that the cost to ship a $6 item is $4, especially for Amazon running their own logistics network to lower costs even further. I don’t quite understand why unbundling the shipping cost would be somehow better, meanwhile my local grocery store or Best Buy doesn’t separately charge me for their transportation costs to get the item to the store location.

    None of this is to defend the obviously undefendable Amazon - sounds like the FBA program is extremely predatory. And their selling ad placement on search pages has slowly ruined the shopping experience. I hope Amazon gets broken up for the good of the consumer and the market.

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      1 year ago

      we already have a federal shipping service, and it would be better if republicans didn’t try and destroy it every chance they get, like scrapping the sorting machines to stop mail in voters

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        1 year ago

        What’s crappy is that’s the only reason they are killing it. Cause it allows MORE people to vote easier. Which means LESS votes for Republicans. That’s why they keep trying to kill it and it sucks.

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          it’s actually not the only reason, there is the second of wanting to destroy the post service to be able to privatize it or make it so bad that it stops being an option, and they can push a private post office.