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Bye Bye for now....Amazon
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<blockquote data-quote="brownracer" data-source="post: 1694721" data-attributes="member: 304"><p><strong>Wake Up-</strong>- From Amazon's perspective delivery is one of their highest costs. They are known as an non-Union employer that pays the minimum. Amazon is implementing a strategy to deliver all of their volume in the major cities out of their distribution centers within the same day using in-house delivery or non-union low cost vendors like LazerShip. Amazon is going from a customer to a COMPETITOR. In Europe they deliver volume that is not ordered through their system. Even if the lost volume has little margin for us it still pays for our fixed costs, jobs, etc. Let's not become IBM, Sears, KMart, Microsoft that have their big years behind them because of the excuse making that they were always needed. The barriers to entry are falling in our industry-- in the near future we will have more and more competitors, in more and more different configurations. If we don't watch out our last-mile delivery will shrink to increasingly unprofitable rural routes and small volume deliveries. Amazon's plan is not short term-- they have been planning this for years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownracer, post: 1694721, member: 304"] [B]Wake Up-[/B]- From Amazon's perspective delivery is one of their highest costs. They are known as an non-Union employer that pays the minimum. Amazon is implementing a strategy to deliver all of their volume in the major cities out of their distribution centers within the same day using in-house delivery or non-union low cost vendors like LazerShip. Amazon is going from a customer to a COMPETITOR. In Europe they deliver volume that is not ordered through their system. Even if the lost volume has little margin for us it still pays for our fixed costs, jobs, etc. Let's not become IBM, Sears, KMart, Microsoft that have their big years behind them because of the excuse making that they were always needed. The barriers to entry are falling in our industry-- in the near future we will have more and more competitors, in more and more different configurations. If we don't watch out our last-mile delivery will shrink to increasingly unprofitable rural routes and small volume deliveries. Amazon's plan is not short term-- they have been planning this for years. [/QUOTE]
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