Amazon’s $4 Billion Holiday Fix: Half-Empty Trucks, $3,000 Bonuses
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- Nov 24, 2021
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Most cargo ships putting into the port of Everett, Washington, brim with cement and lumber. So when the Olive Bay docked in early November, it was clear this was no ordinary shipmen...
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Ben Thompson @benthompson
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Dec 6, 2021
This means that Amazon could, if they wanted to, make massive profits by reselling space they negotiated last year, but instead it appears that the company is offering space at cost to its resellers; this is the most important part of that Bloomberg article: This logistical prowess hasn’t been lost on the merchants who sell products on Amazon’s sprawling marketplace.