Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries

Re:Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries by vacri on Thursday April 24, 2014 @06:07PM (#7643409)

I find the definition of oneself "as a consumer with children". What parent isn't a 'consumer'? Some isolated hill-family that shoots their own food and lives off the land? It sounds like there's some sort of entitlement expected from that definition, the same way people expect entitlement when they say "as a taxpayer..."

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Re:Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries by sukuriant on Thursday April 24, 2014 @06:21PM (#7643475)

A single person doesn't have to manage the additional stress of children wanting to play with our touch all the things in the store.

Children don't want to have to be drug around to a store just so they don't get in trouble / hurt at home.

So, there is a bit of difference between a consumer and a consumer that has children. The difference being that the monotonous tasks like shopping are more difficult with rogue agents.

I don't have kids, this is just my assessment of the situation.

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Re:Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries by vacri on Thursday April 24, 2014 @11:19PM (#7644573)

Please read my comment again, and you'll see that it's not the "with children" part that I am talking about. My first sentence is admittedly missing a bit: "... to be weird". Describing yourself as a consumer is entirely redundant in this context, and it makes it sound like you should get special treatment for some reason.

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Re:Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries by sukuriant on Friday April 25, 2014 @05:05PM (#7649033)

Ah. That wasn't me, that was deftnerd. I didn't read the subtext in their words that you did. Then again, I agree shopping with kids is a greater hassle than shopping without them, so I probably just skimmed over it without any mental triggers or bias.

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