Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months

Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by throwaway201103 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @05:17PM (#25241018)

You can't package and ship a parcel for less than $3 so they are losing money on small sales like that. It's clearly a loss-leading effort to compete with other online retailers.

Amazon free shipping has been terrible here. Weeks, at best unless you pay for the express options. And yes Walmart is better. One of my recent online purchases (cell phone screen protector) was estimated at 3 weeks delivery on Amazon. I bought the same item from Walmart.com instead and had it in 2 or 3 days.

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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by chrisseaton on Saturday November 28, 2020 @06:07PM (#25241349)

Amazon's free shipping routinely delivers items worth a few dollars in about ten to twelve hours for me, and I don't live anywhere near a major city. Are you in some extraordinarily remote location?

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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by throwaway201103 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:56PM (#25241981)

Small-ish town (~80K) Midwest USA

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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by ficklepickle on Sunday November 29, 2020 @04:31AM (#25244018)

Are we guessing? Parma, Ohio?

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