Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks

Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish... by sremani on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:42AM (#16849721)

Retail in general is thin-margin. That is why you see Amazon try out all sorts of things from cloud to videos, because their core is so thin margin, that any non-core looks more like an opportunity rather than spreading out resources, say in contrast to a Google or Facebook, who have solid cores high margins.

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Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish... by dv_dt on Monday April 16, 2018 @12:12PM (#16850055)

But their pricing hasn't been best-possible for a while now. I've been more and more frequently finding better prices through other venues.

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Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish... by sol_remmy on Monday April 16, 2018 @01:22PM (#16850808)

That's because big box retailers are shipping at a loss: i ordered something from Home Depot that was $10 and got free shipping, 3-4 days too. For the same cost as the in-store item. No way is that profitable for them

They're all okay losing money in the short temp to capture online consumers

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Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish... by dv_dt on Monday April 16, 2018 @03:48PM (#16852099)

Are small sellers on ebay selling at a loss too?

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Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish... by aylmao on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:45AM (#16849752)

AWS has pretty good margins afaik.

They have the money to make huge acquisitions and invest in planes, drones, etc. They have the money to treat their employees decently.

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Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish... by jonknee on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:52AM (#16849831)

And I doubt the AWS staff is peeing in bottles to make their numbers.

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