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Re:Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs by petra on Monday May 13, 2019 @05:34PM (#19904213)
A side question:

Blair, how do you Amazon's private label effort ? How will that end, would we buy mostly Amazon exclusive brands ?

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Re:Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs by blairanderson on Monday May 13, 2019 @06:16PM (#19904551)
Yes its going to continue in a huge way.

Their retail team used to consist mostly of buyers. Most of those resources have shifted to private label.

Imagine a thousand people previously managing external brands now focused on finding/creating private label brands with the data of sales volume at their fingertips.

They have something like 150 private label brands right now.

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