• Chipthemonk@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Interesting article. It’s hard to avoid Amazon as they have made things so convenient. I can’t stand going to big box stores when I can just order something online. And Amazon has made that process super simple. I guess I should just make a better effort to purchase elsewhere and not solely Amazon.

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      1 year ago

      As an ex amazon warehouse worker , it was a mixed bag . Some locations are known for being terrible , but for the most part was a well paying job in the right locations . I just think its dumb they made a holiday of their own to sell more stuff right in the middle of the slowest part of the year , I remember 2019s prime day , they highered a ton of Temps to cover this one week , volume was high for a few weeks , and then went back to the lull . The thing they don’t mention , prime day from my experience seemed to pull in less and less volume every year , last years wasent evin realy an increase in packages . With ups going on strike , the volume may go up , but amazon has made more than a few blunders in the past few years that have hobbled it , they expanded to a bunch of new stations that had to be shuttered within years . My location put a bunch of money into renovations , expanded the warehouse over 2 years , then abruptly last year shut down . Was a legacy site too .

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        An Amazon software engineer once told me that prime day was created to stress test their software performance and logistics at scale ahead of the Black Friday and Christmas buying season when traffic would be at the highest. Basically the sales were primarily used to generate traffic rather than turn a profit. Not sure how true that is but it sounded believable enough.