Re:Electronics Stores Fight for Survival
by cshesse on Saturday September 01, 2012 @04:12AM
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Amazon does currently have to pay for the somewhat expensive delivery of single items to your house or place of work, so it's not all good.
Also the convenience that the parent talks about is not what I'd call convenient. Basically the last 4 times I went to a store, they didn't have the thing I wanted, or it was out of stock. And most of the time I want to go to a store, it's not open.
Re:Electronics Stores Fight for Survival
by lotsofpulp on Saturday September 01, 2012 @11:14AM
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>Amazon does currently have to pay for the somewhat expensive delivery of single items to your house or place of work, so it's not all good.
I assume this is at least partially cancelled out by not having to deliver items to stores.
1) Store building rent (they ship directly from their warehouses)
2) Cashiers / sales salaries
3) Store security, cameras, loss prevention.
4) Store utilities and other - electricity, water, insurance, heating, cooling, inspections.
5) Liability (such as customers falling or pretending to fall)
6) Inventory tracking, moving things around shelves, optimizing, etc.