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<blockquote data-quote="Big Package" data-source="post: 2988699" data-attributes="member: 67494"><p>For the past month, we are reminded during safety and PCM that amazon accounts for 50% of the revenue in our building that "keeps us our jobs". Every amazon package has to be gently loaded or unloaded or loaded into cars like it's a newborn or something just as ridiculous.</p><p></p><p>As more and more companies decide to skip shipping altogether and do it themselves, UPS is gonna nosedive and have to figure something else out.</p><p></p><p>Granted I'm in a city near the two biggest cities in the PNW, and we are pretty progressive for fuel savings and environment.</p><p></p><p>Decent example:</p><p></p><p>We order most of our groceries online, setup pickup time preferences, and go get our groceries ourselves when their truck comes. Sometimes there's a coupon with your order, other times if you buy bags or baskets they'll fill them and take a percentage off, and if you return boxes/bags etc, you get a randomized percentage off your order from 5 to 20%. If there's something you forgot to order and you're on the end of the route, they'll discount it more so they never return anything and go back to their warehouse empty.</p><p></p><p>People who continuously return boxes and bags or baskets perpetually keep the 20% discount. It stacks up to 90 days ahead. It's healthier for the environment, healthier for us, and cheaper than bulk wholesale stores. A *lot* cheaper. No need to track anything. It's all grains nuts berries so we have to buy a few other things, but saves us so much money and zero shipping.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Package, post: 2988699, member: 67494"] For the past month, we are reminded during safety and PCM that amazon accounts for 50% of the revenue in our building that "keeps us our jobs". Every amazon package has to be gently loaded or unloaded or loaded into cars like it's a newborn or something just as ridiculous. As more and more companies decide to skip shipping altogether and do it themselves, UPS is gonna nosedive and have to figure something else out. Granted I'm in a city near the two biggest cities in the PNW, and we are pretty progressive for fuel savings and environment. Decent example: We order most of our groceries online, setup pickup time preferences, and go get our groceries ourselves when their truck comes. Sometimes there's a coupon with your order, other times if you buy bags or baskets they'll fill them and take a percentage off, and if you return boxes/bags etc, you get a randomized percentage off your order from 5 to 20%. If there's something you forgot to order and you're on the end of the route, they'll discount it more so they never return anything and go back to their warehouse empty. People who continuously return boxes and bags or baskets perpetually keep the 20% discount. It stacks up to 90 days ahead. It's healthier for the environment, healthier for us, and cheaper than bulk wholesale stores. A *lot* cheaper. No need to track anything. It's all grains nuts berries so we have to buy a few other things, but saves us so much money and zero shipping. [/QUOTE]
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