Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
by nunez on Saturday July 31, 2021 @11:58PM
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Yeah, Walmart, Target, and basically any large reseller is excellent when they have the inventory in their warehouse. Once you use them for drop-ship (which they aren’t transparent about…at all), orders will get dicey. The arrive by date is an estimation that assumes that their last-mile logistics pans out.
I also regularly didn't get things on time. And I don't mean a day late, I mean "hasn't even shipped yet by the time it should arrive" late, and without even a notice.
What really sold me on Amazon was game sales, though. I'd pre-order something at Walmart or Gamestop and show up on release day to find out they didn't get it. This happened enough that I finally just ordered it on Amazon instead and hoped it'd work out. It not only worked out, but it had great tracking so I always knew what was going on. I had maybe 2 games be late from Amazon in all the time I ordered from them, and at least one of those was weather that stopped the planes and would absolutely have affected GS and WM, too.
From there they introduced the 2-day shipping and the rest was history.