FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon

Re:FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon by djsumdog on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @11:29AM (#20635601)

The service is different though. If you use Amazon as your warehouse, on the lower tiers, you just ship inventory and they sort it by SKU .. for all stores! So some supplier could store a bunch of counterfeits with the same SKU, someone orders from your store, and your customer get a counterfeit (even if you've only shipped real products). .. This is one big reason most sex toy manufacturers won't sell to retailers that have Amazon stores.

I'm going to guess UPS keeps warehousing separate per vendor.

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Re:FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon by ABeeSea on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:17PM (#20636090)

Amazon famously doesn’t really sort any of their inventory. It’s more efficient to place inventory randomly.

https://classic.qz.com/perfect-company-2/1172282/this-compan...

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Re:FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon by mauvehaus on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:23PM (#20636158)

It also reduces mistakes in picking. It's hard to grab a size medium T-Shirt from the shelf above the larges by mistake if the shelf above the larges has lipstick and spark plug wires on it.

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Re:FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon by the-pigeon on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:49PM (#20636441)

I don't understand this.

You have a product with a UPC. You have a picker with a UPC and a scanner. If the scanner scans the wrong UPC, the picker grabbed the wrong thing.

And yet I get sent the wrong item from Amazon multiple times per year. Ballpark of 1 in 20 orders. And not like I got the wrong order. More like I ordered spicy taco seasoning and receive regular taco seasoning. So a mistake that makes sense if you were matching on titles but why not match on UPCs?

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Re:FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon by blhack on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:41PM (#20636365)

Wow this is one of the most elegant and interesting things I've read in a while. This is absolutely genius. Amazing!

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Re:FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon by pests on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:20PM (#20638512)

You can choose not to comingle your items. In this case you must relabel them with custom bar codes.

Amazon will only then use your items for your sales and not for anyone elses. Possible longer shipping times, etc. But I s always been possible to ensure correct items on the seller side with FBA.

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Re:FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon by tuvan on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:09PM (#20636004)

Interesting, does Amazon do anything for damages when someone buys something thinking it is sold by you and receive a counterfeit?

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Re:FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon by londons_explore on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:08PM (#20635994)

You can easily use a different SKU if you want to avoid this.

Most people like to use the same SKU to get more exposure on amazon.com though.

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Re:FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon by sjaknanxnnx on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:04PM (#20637806)

Can the counterfeiter just copy your new SKU?

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Re:FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon by namibj on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:11AM (#20642464)

Yes.

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