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Re: by jabradoodle on Saturday February 10, 2024 @08:31AM (#39325997)
That's how nearly every aspect of every business works; would you you start a bakery by learning construction and building it yourself?
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Re: by AtlasBarfed on Saturday February 10, 2024 @05:55PM (#39330994)
Construction is a one time cost. It infrastructure is in constant use.

It's like accounting and finance. Yeah a lot of companies use tax firms, but they all have finance and accounting in-house.

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Re: by jabradoodle on Monday February 12, 2024 @07:19AM (#39344014)
I don't think that's the important distinction, lots of ongoing costs are outsourced.

Amazon may have their own shipping fleet, most retailers of smaller scale pay someone else to do it for profit.

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