I cancelled Prime after Bezos was hanging out at the inauguration. It’s all garbage anyway. Let it burn. Good luck to those who need a job.
The larger issue is AWS (Amazon Web Services) which generates more than 70% of Amazon’s profits. The retail side is almost inconsequential.
I haven’t used AWS for any personal stuff in a while, but as someone who’s been in the field for near on two decades, the institutional inertia behind “cloud == AWS” is frustratingly pervasive over the tech industry at large.
AWS is unavoidable, other clouds are barely a blip for now. But even if the other clouds surpassed AWS, it’s not like that’s an improvement. Google Cloud? Oracle Cloud? Microsoft Cloud? Are you really going to bat for them just because Amazon = Bezos?
There are other providers outside of the behemoths.
Not to mention: cloud vendor lock-in is something that can and should be mitigated by intelligently designing and architecting against it.
and they only kept WF shopping around as PR, eventhough they know its cost them more keeping it around. when Prime left some wf stores and consiladated after they introduced the 9.95fee, they suffered alot revenue wise. because prime was also boosting in-store traffic as well as online buying.
Prime used to be great for lots of things. Specifically heavy things. Now it’s 50% more than even using UPS or fedex to ship something like car parts to my door.
I pay monthly to get free shipping on things that I realized I didn’t even need in the first place. I haven’t bought anything in a month, and realized that I was buying things only because I could, not because I needed them.
i needed to buy something off amazon unfortunately, because of the tariffs i needed to stock up on so i dont need to buy it again for a long time. allergy meds, pain meds,etc.
It’s quite the perspective to see such a large slice of jobs created due to Amazon deliveries via USPS. In addition, to know that segment of jobs is for delivering Made in China product via Amazon.
I do have to wonder if Trump was mindful of this long game. Last time he said the USPS was getting ripped off by Amazon.
*UPS
What? Is that headline in English?
Yes. They beat earnings estimates, but they are cutting jobs in anticipation of fewer Amazon shipments because tariffs.
Record profits! Job cuts! Capitalism, baby!
This is just saying they’re using their brain to recognize that there is a coming slow down.
That’s their stated reason, but I’m sure installing automated small package sorters at every delivery hub last year is the real driver of this.
Gee what state has a UPS hub, and is also getting hit by tariffs on Bourbon and gave us the fucking turtle that is responsible for all this?
Oh yeah, Kenfucky!
The dominos are falling, by September there might be enough fat leopards and faceless fuckhead banging on their GOP fascist doors to maybe get them worried, but only time will tell.
Trump White House is now in damage control mode figuring out how to hide the real unemployment figures.
dint expect a coked out and ketamined out fiend to do thing so much damage in a short amount of time.
A common running thread among fascists is being fantasist. Trump’s tariff threat to force companies to re-shore is one of those fantasies. His plan makes sense if we are still living in 19th century when gunboat diplomacy, economic warfare, colonialism, or the general mindset of “might makes right” still works. But such reality has long gone and the world now has to be mulitateral. What Trump is doing is regression.
trump himself has uses these tactics all his life, when he was getting sued or trying to get free service out of people.
That’s true. His impeachment proceedings got distracted with the assassination of Khassem Soleimani in January 2020, and then COVID happened.