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Re:Amazon Prime delivery delays are now as long as a month by capableweb on Monday March 23, 2020 @11:49AM (#22665168)
This seems pretty standard when you ask executives at any company. Of course no executive is gonna go straight out and say they don't care about the long-term, only about short-term profitability.

> Hey Joe, does your company emphasis on the long term or short-term profitability?

> Joe: What a good question! We at ACME AB of course favor long-term sustainability rather than short-term profitability

> How about letting your warehouse workers go to the bathroom whenever they want?

> Joe: well, our long-term plan depends on short-term profitability so of course people can't go to the bathroom whenever they want, they should have a allocated slot for that.

Point being: look at the actions of a company rather than the words of the owners/workers, and you'll get a much more real picture.

Re:Amazon Prime delivery delays are now as long as a month by lonelappde on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @09:13AM (#22674551)
How about you start by taking a look at Amazon's 25 year history of long term growth at the expense of negative short term profit?
Re:Amazon Prime delivery delays are now as long as a month by kjs3 on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @03:45PM (#22678205)
You mean like eschewing short term pandering to the market and massively reinvesting in the company? Like they've done for years. So, yes, Amazon thinks long term.