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Amazon now delaying prime orders for a month
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<blockquote data-quote="Overpaid Union Thug" data-source="post: 4417265" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>There is no ideological perch. I’m just a concerned driver using data readily available online to form an opinion. Your math, although correct, also shows what Amazon has become and reveals their affect on UPS and its ability to grow and provide jobs. If you think it doesn’t matter than maybe you should take a gander at all the businesses that have been affected by Amazon. As well as the fact that they make up about 50% of e-commerce and growing. At the rate they’re growing they’ll force more stores/companies that’s been around for decades to make severe cuts or close. That affects us. We can’t grow (or be stable for that matter) when a giant company is grabbing so much market share from our shippers AND planing to deliver most of it themselves. </p><p></p><p>It’s dangerous to allow Amazon to get so big. And the more people use them (not just UPSers) the more they’ll grow and we’ll all end up with less to choose from. That’s not good for the country or us. Especially when our competition is more than willing to do the same job for peanuts. We are losing lots of accounts as FedEx uses that advantage to gobble up what will essentially be the scraps left over from Amazon. I think the govt will put the breaks on Amazon in the future. But it will be too late. </p><p></p><p>I’d rather use Walmart and other brick and mortar stores before Amazon any day. At least those can potentially be swayed back to use us as their primary shipper. If they aren’t already. Continuing to throw money at Amazon is basically cutting our own throats. If someone is willing to avoid shopping at anti union stores (or for any other reason) they should be more than willing to avoid giving the biggest threat to our pensions (and potentially our jobs) their business. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.investopedia.com/news/5-companies-amazon-killing/" target="_blank">A Dozen or so Companies Amazon Is Slaying This Year</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.adweek.com/digital/amazon-killed-brick-and-mortar-so-why-is-it-investing-in-stores/" target="_blank">Amazon Killed Brick and Mortar, So Why Is It Investing in Stores?</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/fedex-completely-cut-ties-with-amazon-heres-why-ups-wont-or-cant.html" target="_blank">FedEx Completely Cut Ties With Amazon. Here's Why UPS Won't (or Can't)</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Overpaid Union Thug, post: 4417265, member: 198"] There is no ideological perch. I’m just a concerned driver using data readily available online to form an opinion. Your math, although correct, also shows what Amazon has become and reveals their affect on UPS and its ability to grow and provide jobs. If you think it doesn’t matter than maybe you should take a gander at all the businesses that have been affected by Amazon. As well as the fact that they make up about 50% of e-commerce and growing. At the rate they’re growing they’ll force more stores/companies that’s been around for decades to make severe cuts or close. That affects us. We can’t grow (or be stable for that matter) when a giant company is grabbing so much market share from our shippers AND planing to deliver most of it themselves. It’s dangerous to allow Amazon to get so big. And the more people use them (not just UPSers) the more they’ll grow and we’ll all end up with less to choose from. That’s not good for the country or us. Especially when our competition is more than willing to do the same job for peanuts. We are losing lots of accounts as FedEx uses that advantage to gobble up what will essentially be the scraps left over from Amazon. I think the govt will put the breaks on Amazon in the future. But it will be too late. I’d rather use Walmart and other brick and mortar stores before Amazon any day. At least those can potentially be swayed back to use us as their primary shipper. If they aren’t already. Continuing to throw money at Amazon is basically cutting our own throats. If someone is willing to avoid shopping at anti union stores (or for any other reason) they should be more than willing to avoid giving the biggest threat to our pensions (and potentially our jobs) their business. [URL="https://www.investopedia.com/news/5-companies-amazon-killing/"]A Dozen or so Companies Amazon Is Slaying This Year[/URL] [URL="https://www.adweek.com/digital/amazon-killed-brick-and-mortar-so-why-is-it-investing-in-stores/"]Amazon Killed Brick and Mortar, So Why Is It Investing in Stores?[/URL] [URL="https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/fedex-completely-cut-ties-with-amazon-heres-why-ups-wont-or-cant.html"]FedEx Completely Cut Ties With Amazon. Here's Why UPS Won't (or Can't)[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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