How Amazon Tried To Get Shoppers To Buy Less So It Could Catch Up
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- After weeks of encouraging shoppers to order less by slowing down promotions, coupons, ads and reviews, Amazon says delivery speeds are returning to normal. CNBC explores all the ways Amazon tweaked its online experience to encourage shoppers to buy less in recent weeks, and how that’s impacted sellers, customers and Amazon’s ability to catch up to a huge surge in demand.
Amazon has seen a huge surge in sales as people shopped from the safety of their homes during the coronavirus pandemic, but orders faced heavy delays as the e-commerce giant struggled to keep up.
In order to catch up, Amazon tweaked its online shopping experience to accomplish something extremely unusual: get shoppers to order less.
For weeks, Amazon stopped coupons, product recommendations and promotional deals. Mother's Day items weren't displayed on the homepage and Prime Day has reportedly been postponed indefinitely. It slowed down advertising, reviews, and its affiliate marketing and Fulfilled by Amazon programs, while placing strict limits on incoming inventory.
"They didn't have a choice but to slow down traffic, to turn off a lot of the features that were driving additional revenue and sales so that they could do their best to to supply families in need right now with these essential goods. I think that the other choice that they had would be to shut down. But I mean, Amazon became sort of an essential service for the country during this time," said Jason Boyce, founder of Amazon seller consultant group Avenue7Media.
Now, Amazon has started to turn these features back on, and delivery speeds are returning to normal.
Watch the video to learn all the ways Amazon tweaked its online experience to encourage shoppers to buy less so it could return to one-day Prime shipping sooner.
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How Amazon Tried To Get Shoppers To Buy Less So It Could Catch Up
Amazon may be the only company ever to be so successful it wants people to stop buying so much of its products
Really though
Jeff Bezos will be the worlds first trillionaire
Its worker shortage because of the virus, they arent protecting workers and haven't released numbers on how many are sick/died
And Chick-fila
@@itsaasdzani1455 youre not making sense bud
COVID out here reminding people how it was before 2-day shipping
Lmao yup. It's kinda a good change. We're needing to slow down again. Next we need dial up again only :)
For real! Driving me crazy... im not ok with this...
@@plaguex1 bro you bouta get slapped
Honestly it worked for me. I use and pay for prime for two day so I just 🤷🏼♀️
COVID is only getting me to be more self protected while I’m out at Walmart Costco dollar store grocery shopping HomeDepot a few times a months in the last 5 months .
Imagine having that problem
Actually, most grocers are doing that, by limiting quantity of items.
Actually its panicking because most factories are closed so stocks are getting lower. Its a sudden panic buying spike.n lockdown means stock makers are home watching netflix.amazon is just postmen. The real product came from those noble factory workers that are home on lockdowns.now amazon r just surviving on suppliers who have stock that are ready.it will run out.common sense.u stop making.theres no stuff. Elon musk said that.
What happens when a cooperation gets too big
JAYanimations they have a say so in government
I do have that problem. I'm a psychiatrist and there is a massive shortage of us.
Forget one thing: Everything is more expensive on Amazon right now.
Yup. A Nintendo is like 600 dollars now...
Angel Gutierrez that has to do with Nintendo's production, not Amazon.
Yeah I noticed that the taxes are way too high
idk its still the same price for me
@@edward2364 ya. Taxes are like $7 for normal travel not $3 but people need what people need so Jeff is doing a great job
I noticed the change when they no longer had deal if the day and lightning deals on their landing page...
It is now back posted on the main page
We are isolated and an older couple. We get everything from Amazon except fresh food products. We tried others but Amazon is our comfort zone.
I received an email today that in order not to be charged for an item I never received I had to get it back to them by June 1st! It’s always the Amazon drivers that “lose” my packages! I’m a prime member but beginning to realize that Amazon is not “all that” anymore! Time to cut the apron strings so to speak!! Great report! Thanks CNBC!
I'm a prime member for many years, but lately I've found myself buying my essential items on ebay. It's been years since I've bought from ebay :/
Good, better Amazon have a rival than being an eventual monopoly
I love shopping on ebay! You can find Anything you're looking for, Anything!
I'm right there with you. Especially when you don't use their other services
I just cancelled my Prime. I am also buying on Ebay now. Amazon shipping to AK is taking 3 to 4 weeks. Ebay takes 4 days. Plus I'd rather support small businesses than Jeff Bezos.
ebay is awesome because you can hold sellers accountable.
"Some workers stayed home, taking advantage of special leave policies to deal with illness"
THEY GOT UNPAID SICK LEAVE. As Jeff is poised to become a trillionaire, Amazon is cutting hazard pay. This video skated over worker conditions, strikes and deaths in a shameful way. These are people not cogs in a wheel, and real journalism should speak truth to power.
thank you
7 deaths so far in Amazon warehouses and 100s of infections, while Amazon gives them wipes and masks and say "keep working or youre fired"
You DO realize this is CNBC, right?? Lol, you won't find "real journalism" or "truth to power" here my friend, they are part OF that 'power' ;)
@@voLumez You do realize there are hundreds of thousands of people that work the warehouses, right?
It's capitalism at it's worst. I swear I won't buy anything from amazon.
World: The economy is crashing!
Amazon: lol
low profit business alway suriveved...
campkira tell more about it
Amazon made most of its profit from aws.
The stocks literally right below all time highs
All the money that pulled out of airlines and theaters etc, went into AMZN and everything else they think is going to survive pandemic
they are still the company doing best. not surprised. no one wants to leave their house in this crisis.
So many stocks are doing unreasonably well rn I just want to get invested but it makes little sense since we’re in an optimism buble
Great monopoly winner
Anzon
They're building a new warehouse in a cornfield a half a mile from my house.
Shipping should be pretty quick then.
Where at ? We're getting one from Birmingham, which is a lifesaver for me, cause by God there isn't any room.
Can you buy directly from them?
Zachary Joshua Jao , No I don’t believe so, they don’t have let’s say a walk up counter that you can buy from.
I sympathize, the volume of traffic is going to horrid
Repetitive, saying the same thing over and over in different ways.
Tl;dw. Amazon can’t keep up and takes a while to respond to sellers and free membership gets super slow shipping and prime gets slightly slower. So buy prime to get your packages faster. And “non essential items” take longer but no one really knows what a non essential item is.
Fuert Neigt i bought something last month and received it in 2 days .. no amazon prime or nothing LOL
Everybody's got $1,200 and gotta spend it before it burns a hole in their pockets. It's the American way!
Just got mine but it's hard to spend when things are closed down
Mine went straight to Navient.
I got a letter yesterday saying I was getting a check but there was no check in the envelope. The government is so stupid sometimes. Only they could be dumb enough to know where I live but send the money somewhere else. Presumably the check was electronically sent to an old bank account I no long have. So the bank will refuse the payment and send it back at which point the government will cut a physical check and send it to the place they sent the letter to 3 months ago. That's a genuinely impressive level of stupidity considering their priority was to get the money out to people as fast as possible. And because they know my correct bank info and address because I get Social Security. I guess the treasury is sending the checks to whatever bank account was most recently used for a tax return. The IRS is getting that info from whatever tax prep service you may have used in the past rather than using their own information. In my case that info is from about 2005. The really stupid part is the IRS has my correct address and know where I bank but they still opted to use the information from the tax prep service instead of their own contact information for me. Again that's an impressive kind of dumb right there. So I guess I'll get this check in a few months presumably?🤦♂️
Exactly why alot of people are in debt and live paycheck to paycheck people are milked for there service and kicked to the grand why im trying to move to a different country.
lol I put it directly into my savings account. Truthfully, as a software engineer, I'm still making really good money so I don't need the money but still, I'd rather save that money and the money I'm making at work JUST INCASE. I might just give the stimulus money to my parents for groceries or something. People don't think ahead and look at the bigger picture when it comes to money sadly. When they need that money, it will be gone because they spent it on useless things.
This explains why Amazon is being such a monopoly when it comes to online ordering websites in comparison to the competition that is finally getting a chance...
"If you want a Kindle, you can get it right away" 🤣🤣💀💀🤣🤣
1:17 what a happy package going down a slide looks in case you were wondering.....
IT WORKS, I bought nothing on Amazon since 2015. I no longer have account with them.
Americans: Stop treating your employees like cattle.
Also Americans: Where is my toilet paper!
This is why we still need brick and mortar retailers. Amazon gives you counterfeit goods, delays in shipping, and for heavy/low-cost items it usually costs more to buy at Amazon.
If I sold on Amazon's marketplace ... I would have to mark-up my SELLING PRICE 100% in order to deal with Amazon's FEES. A $100 item would have to sell for $200 on Amazon to make a PROFIT. BUT ... in a store I could sell that SAME ITEM for as little as $125 and still cover costs and MAKE A PROFIT while giving MY CUSTOMERS a WAY BETTER DEAL! So, SHOPPERS on Amazon are already PAYING WAY MORE MONEY from the very start!! SHOP LOCAL!!!
Here is a PBS Frontline report on Amazon ... as it turns out the company is willing to offer LOWER PRICES now and even LOSE MONEY until their competitors are gone for good!
th-cam.com/video/RVVfJVj5z8s/w-d-xo.html
It's been said ... "PEOPLE KNOW THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING and THE VALUE OF NOTHING." A recent PBS Frontline documentary on Amazon ... the company is willing to even "LOSE MONEY" until their competition is gone (BY THE WAY ... such operating tactics are ILLEGAL under both FEDERAL and STATE law!!). We, as consumers, are trained to find the lowest price ... but we may soon find no more local mom-and-pop stores only to leave the chain stores who are at liberty to RAISE PRICES with the little stores now gone. Thinking of that and even how STORE BRANDS are becoming a MONOPOLY on store shelves ... us CONSUMERS need to remain aware!!!
ONLINE SHOPPING is DOING HARM to retail as a whole but DON'T BE FOOLED ... these BIG BOX STORES want to CLOSE MORE LOCATIONS and the TRICK is to have everyone SHOP ONLINE. It means MORE PROFITS for them and LESS JOBS for all of us and our communities ... the WAREHOUSE JOBS will then be MOVED OUTSIDE THE U.S. for even BIGGER CORPORATE PROFITS!!!!
As ROBOTS "work" to pack your orders ... think of all that TRASH ("packaging") you toss from ordering online!!! SHOP LOCAL and see what you are buying and help SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY and LOCAL JOBS, too.
We have a POSTAL SYSTEM that FAVORS BIG BUSINESS and FAILS to provide LOWEST RATES to EVERYONE ... what mom-and-pop stores need to compete! As it is ... BIG BUSINESS wants to PRIVATIZE the U.S.P.S. so they FAVOR the BIG MAILERS.
NOW, if you have a SMALL BUSINESS wanting to sell online you are now required to follow more GOVERNMENT RED TAPE and CONSUMERS are made to PAY MORE TAXES!!
(see LETTER TO THE EDITOR ... LINK below)
And, to add to this LETTER ... are all those businesses in China that ship to U.S. states also COLLECTING and REPORTING the SALES TAX or are they void of the burden now facing small businesses in the U.S.?
www.journaltrib.com/articles/commentary/online-sales-tax-collections-challenged-2/?fbclid=IwAR1CQtNLHmje05-DePJocFoWoR0r-VnymbYyBkiWxjiwtFii5fUT4369rc4
Amazon isn't perfect
@@Variety1985 Well, if it is cheaper. The consumers get better off. Other ecommerce websites are welcoming to compete. (I still like to buy stuff at physical store, but if price higher I buy online) Money stuff works
@@Variety1985 Thanks for sharing. I watched it. What a great video report as well
Amazon should be giving Prime users special discount due to the current delay. I will not renew my Prime membership anymore, it is useless.
I only use the prime membership for prime videos tbh
Prime video is trash, it’s just as bad as Apple’s lmao
That’s what I said, we pay for them to handle these issues. They still profit off of my prime membership. Why do they get it both ways?
I didn't bother paying for Prime in the first place. Their biggest warehouse for my region is just down the road. Website tells me my item will take a few days to deliver and then arrives the next morning most of the time. Besides that, as a Cdn, they were charging Cdn's the same fee for Amazon Prime but without the movies and tv for years. Took about 5 years for them to finally include in Cda but left a bad taste in my mouth. I haven't paid for membership and won't.
Me too. Walmart and ebay was faster with shipping.
7:30 that’s certainly a lot of volume!
Hell yeah
Bruh..... I paused there and did a frame by frame analysis. Conclusion: Fantastic!
We need her @
@@sirstevekensington1563 Bahahaha! Bro you are reckless! Haha
what's her @ people get to work.
We should get a discount on our prime membership cost this year due to the longer shipping times.
Consider *THAT* cost the price of ordering *SAFETY* from your home.
Just cancelled it, when I need I buy membership
@@WhatsUpWithSheila HUH ? Safety from what ? If you mean what I think you mean, its people like you that terrify me and make me feel like I need some SAFETY ..a ton of it ..God please keep me safe from people like you
@@user-dq5rx7bv3x ... I have no idea what you're talking about... I was speaking to the people who ordered what they needed from Amazon online so they wouldn't have to go out because of the Coronavirus... but either way you're an idiot
I got fired because I was sick and using that leave thing from amazon. Now I am searching for another job because my bills not stopping.
Damn almost like we shouldn't be forced to go to just 3 stores for the items we need
the goverment just going to break them into differnt compnay...
Maybe treat your employees more than human beings and less like cattle? Just a thought from some guy
How does that get people to buy less?
@Tessellation and then we will have so many people out of jobs
Always hilarious to see people talk about how employees should be paid more. Every year same thing. Even the best companies, PAY MORE PAY MORE. Amazon may be hiring many temp staff or min-wage tier workers, but aren't their fleet of workers paid like what 20-30% higher than competitors? I mean, if so many of you spent so much time complaining, why hasn't any white knights gone on to make a sustainable company that can attract workers to join them instead of Amazon.
@@Allaboutitties We already do.
As long as consumers want cheap products delivered to them free you'll have exploitation of workers. The cheap products people but at Chinatown are a result of massive exploitation
In a country with no payed sick leave I don't think is ok to say the workers of Amazon are "taking advantage" of it... Don't put this on workers that are using a right that every worker in the world should have. USA is getting crazy
"Taking advantage" does not have a negative stigma attached to it here.
Its interesting how seeds to grow food are considered "non essential" by Amazon. I am still waiting for some seeds that I ordered 2 months ago!!! And I am Prime Member.
Amazon is a waste of money unless you rely on prime for the shipping costs...really were getting charged to basically have no prime?
Ah well, nice you have the money to have a private space company. You are the ones who are paying for that.
If you're buying seeds on amazon, whatever you grow is not essential.
I ordered seeds March 3rd and still haven’t received them!
Well curated report. Love the stuff on CNBC!
I literally just came here from a Business Insider video about how Amazon gets you to buy more items lol
Seems outdated. I’ve ordered several non essential items in the past few weeks and all were delivered with the usual speed and efficiency. And I’m not a Prime member.
Indeed, you are one of the lucky ones. I have
A prime membership which means nothing
Today. Have been waiting 18 days for 2
Items. Also, there is no customer
Service available. ....
@@msmith9620 You have to use online chat, not phones. I'm currently dealing with the fact that my account was hacked, and I've had no issues reaching an employee within minutes. actually getting my money back has been... less expedient, but communicating with customer service has not been an issue.
I think it depends how far you live from a ware house. It takes 2-3 weeks for my non-essential items to arrive
Lucky you. I cannot say the same. I have packages supposedly coming on June 3rd that I ordered in April
Feels more like an amazon commercial than a news segment.
Hey did someone mentioned the pay of the workers in those Amazon warehouses in this video??? Ohh those are not important forget it.
18/he 10 he shift actually 8
Husband is a driver for Amazon. He gets paid 16.75hr with benefits works 10 to 12hrs shifts 4 days a week.
I dont understand why people complain about warehouse wages being so low. Its a warehouse job, youre not an engineer you're not a programmer or etc, therefore you're not worth getting paid 50k or more a year for picking boxes and putting them in a bigger box. I worked for Amazon, I get it, the pay sucks for the physical labor you put in, but I got out because I knew I could learn a trade or go back to school. Now I'm a programmer working from home making good money. If you're so adamant about working for Amazon cause you can't get a job elsewhere then work a little hard and work your way up to a manager or something.
It's pretty much back to normal now. As a buyer and seller I immediately noticed the changes they made. I don't send stuff in to Amazon but I compete on certain products with sellers that do. Until about May 10 my products were prioritized over FBA items and my sales skyrocketed, probably 20 fold. They've now got their shipping times down and third party sellers that ship their own products are once again removed from the Buy It Now box even if their price is lower than sellers that use Amazon warehouses. So it's back to normal. Whether or not this is actually fair is a matter of opinion. I can tell you that letting Amazon ship your items (and take a bigger cut) usually means you sell 5 to 50 times more.
HEY cnbc, is there any reason you wrote «U.K. And europe» when you showed the graph of sales increase from previous year, at about 1:30 in the video. Was UK and the EU what you meant or The entirety of europe or europe but focusing on the United Kingdom. If anyone know please lmk
An Amazon Warehouse is also being built in NY outside of Albany in Schodack, NY. Should be done in November. Construction is still in operation.
will u work there
Steve Cosmolove yes
I bought a 4k player, didn't mind it took longer.
Amazon is like a spoiled child that ate too much
They get so much from gubbermint contracts, they don't need the headache of retail sales especially shipping...that's the real reason but they don't say that.
@@susanrhodes5681 their contracts with government are beyond lucrative.
This video has so much amazing info compared to CNN and other cable news, no wonder NBC is one of the top TV stations in the USA.
I would think that this is a good problem for Amazon. Lol
CNBC, great video! Enjoy your Saturday!💯🙏👐
I agree. As long as its temporary and they encourage consumers and dont force us. Keep essentials flowing TOP priority.
It’s a little scary that they can decide what people can and can’t buy, which is essentially what they were doing.
That's what happens when you have a Monopoly, they know they don't have competition so they can do whatever they want. Soon they'll raise Amazon prime price again
It’s almost like stores can decide what they can sell in their stores, weird. /s
@@theRedCatRed theres really no problem with that lmao, just go to a different store
@@PressKevinToContinue you certainly don't know what monopoly means.
Amazon in my country isn't performing that good due to local competitor flipkart.
ebayers and USPS have proven to be a bedrock in the storm, compared to amazin'
I ordered some skincare products and they arrived in 3 days and I am a prime member. I don’t think skincare falls under essential products.🤷♀️
Any work shall be deemed essential because it is a source of income for somebody and their employees which we need in times like these
I wouldn't buy anything that goes directly in or on my body from Amazon. They still have an expiry problem. It has been that way for years.
Same. Clothes were delivered in two days in some cases, yet, infant acetaminophen and ibuprofen took ten days to be delivered.
and I wait at least a week for most items and am a prime member
I think personal care is considered essential.
I ordered something for my mom from Amazon and it was supposed to arrive between May 13th - 15th. I am NOT an Amazon Prime member, so I think the company mailed it directly and it arrived 5-7 days earlier than anticipated. That was good for me!
All the business people trying to morph the meaning of 'essential' to make sure they are making a bunch of money.
Better give us Free Prime for 1 year! And I dont mind with 2 weeks shipping
Just switch to another seller, who wants to wait 2 weeks for a product when you can get it in 2 days elsewhere?
I dont work for amazon, but I do work in a distribution warehouse and it's been crazy these past few months. The company has done a lot to keep us workers safe and I love my job, however the extra precautions we have to take added with the extra high demands to get orders filled is taking a toll on those of us in the shipping industry.
Excellent and informative CNBC! Thanks!
After a month I canceled my food order, and my Prime account. Especially when a pizza oven was stolen off a porch that week and made the news. I guess pizza ovens are more essential than food.
I don't understand the relation. Why did the stolen pizza oven (as I understand it, not yours), cause you to cancel your food order(s)? And your Prime?
pr0xZen my guess is that they think it shouldn't have been delivered.
Some their out there is eating like Papa John!
It is not more essential. Someone saw something they wanted and took it from you instead of buying it. That has nothing to do with whether or not food is essential.
@@pr0xZen Amazon decided to only ship essential items. So they are shipping pizza ovens, the most essential of all items apparently.
Sup with them considering adult toys essential.
kinda makes sense, if people cant go out theres only few things they can do at home ;)
That nut is essential for men and women!
Adult toys? You mean like violent video games and stuff?
For some they are....😅😅
Clutch Nixon 😅 umm no
The struggle is real. Being disabled and on chemotherapy as a high risk person I’ve relied on online shopping and 1-2 day at most receiving it for 4 years of it for me it’s a huge deal to not get essentials which may not be to the normal person but to most of disabled people they are every day used essential. Technically it’s illegal discrimination and violation of our civil disabled federal ADA rights to be treated with priorities. Personally as a 12 year dedicated users, past top 20,000 reviewer for 3 years of products and still in the top 30,000 reviewers for reviews of purchased items I have taken my business entirely elsewhere to get it same day or next day by the stores themselves and haven’t used Amazon since February was my last order because I couldn’t wait 25-45+days for the products I needed and ordering. It’s a shame they didn’t allot for certain people during this time period like the huge businesses and then small ones followed suit having special shopping hours for elderly, high risk and disabled people before normal operating hours we have the stores to ourselves which they make sure the night before it’s stocked with everything they can since we only can shop at these times one day a week which isn’t enough. There’s not enough room in a refrigerator even a sub zero to hold everything I can buy and use daily for myself and dogs for 8 days or more and why getting items every 4-5 at most is what my caretaker was doing but since she quit on me I’m left with no caretaker and no way to get a new one for the 156 hours a month I get a paid caretaker to be here with me all day everyday doing things for me and as I need them. It’s made more difficult by not being able to get items online and quickly when I can’t leave the house.
Keep up these great videos CNBC!!
And they paid no taxes and they took hazard pay away from their workers.
Hazard pay ia in effect until the end of May...
And with the country *opening back up* you would think there was no longer a pandemic ....I would not continue to pay it either
7:30 Fellas you’re welcome! 😇
Thank you god blessed you
SIMPS!
Why do I shop Amazon? #1 Delivery time - Tennis shoes from DSW - 2 1/2 weeks, dishwasher detergent from Walmart 5 weeks. #2 availability of product; #3 they stand behind product and service; #4 there is nothing wrong with being a successful company?
We in Israel had free shipping from Amazon US until the crisis started for orders over $49. This was canceled to slow orders and international freight is also impacted due to less commercial flights which a lot of freight uses.
All while continuing to collect Prime membership dues🙄
We warned you Amazon addicts about how evil they were but you did not listen.
Cancel your Prime! I did.
I called Amazon and they gave me a small rebate on my prime membership. It was small but I appreciate the gesture. Prime members still get the items faster than non-members at no shipping cost. Plus, Amazon has been filling my orders a day or two faster now. But none of that matters if the employee is not taken care of.
Amazon offered me to refund 3 months of prime
DAMN who's that PAWG at 7:30?
Lmao
Should've been the thumbnail.
man i was looking for this
Welcome friends! You've come to the right place.
Checking in. 😆
Funny how I’m watching this video......and start tomorrow morning.
Um, in my amazon when i logg on nothing really has changed. I still get suggestions, coupons and offers. Some itemes do delay in time to getting to me, but nothing severe. I haven't seen anything in which this video states. In addition they were pushing the credit card deal.
I've only bought 1 thing on Amazon long before this and don't plan on buying anything else. They said it was in stock, took my money, then cancelled my order.
When AMAZON remains open ... but MOM-AND-POP businesses may have had to CLOSE. When WALMART chooses to lead YOU through their stores like CATTLE ... but MOM-AND-POP businesses may have had to CLOSE. WHO will YOU CHOOSE to SHOP with in the future ... SHOP LOCAL NOW AND FOREVER!!
Amazon and all of those "other" BIG BOX STORES are ALLOWED TO REMAIN OPEN while SMALL MOM-AND-POP BUSINESSES ARE MADE TO CLOSE!!!
FUNNY too, how Amazon Web Services (AWS) owns all of the data centers and provides services to the C.I.A. and MILLIONS of small and large businesses ... that serves MILLIONS of customers who provide data to these data centers at the rate of BILLIONS OF TRANSACTIONS per day. Could it be possible through the USER AGREEMENTS that Amazon (and even the C.I.A.) has ACCESS to all of this information to, well, SPY ON PEOPLE? Perhaps Amazon and the C.I.A. is having a SPECIAL "BOOK BURNING" PARTY of George Orwell's BOOK "1984." PEOPLE, it's time to WAKE UP ... it looks like we are WELL PAST 1984!!!!
Nice, GOVERNMENT helps to keep OPEN Amazon and other businesses that the GOVERNMENT has declared "ESSENTIAL" while SMALL BUSINESSES are MADE TO FAIL!
And, DON'T BE FOOLED!! Pushing SMALL BUSINESSES to SELL ONLINE (CURBSIDE, PHONE, etc. ... with a credit/debit card) and for EVERYONE to COMMUNICATE ONLINE via video, etc. ... it's nothing more than BIG BANKS and GOVERNMENT wanting YOU to use the INTERNET where they may CONTROL, PROFIT, and MONITOR just about EVERYTHING!!!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ... STOP "DRAINING Main Street" and go back to "DRAINING THE SWAMP!" PEOPLE ARE SICK of seeing our ECONOMY DESTROYED ... they have HAD ENOUGH GOVERNMENT DAMAGE to their LIVES and LIVELIHOODS!!! Let's GET BACK TO WORK, America!!
This PBS Frontline documentary has a lot to say about Amazon and the FACT that they are WILLING TO LOSE MONEY to put their COMPETITORS OUT OF BUSINESS!!!
th-cam.com/video/RVVfJVj5z8s/w-d-xo.html
What’s your point in this post?! At the end of the day no one cares.
@@Variety1985 😴
I.P. Freely That’s comment is fact tho
Variety Marketplace when I bought a new gas mask filter it took my money then told me I’m not getting the filter and and not getting a refund, but one of the military surplus shops that has way lower prices and better products is closed
Did y’all know it’s impossible to breathe while smiling?
Kidding just wanted y’all to smile 😊. If you’re reading this bruv (or bruvette), understand that you are amazing bro, have a blessed week and don’t let nobody ruin your day bro. Stack and act broke. Get ya bread and all the crumbs too 🤧💰💯
Why is you coughing?
Yeah right I work at the PO and it's like the holidays right now, even UPS and FedEx drivers that I have talked to say the same.
I'm still waiting for drone delivery lol
*TARGET HAS ENTERED THE CHAT*
Exactly I just went to target pick up to get my stuff stay in my car no brainer it's a great experience.
yes, there are still other online sellers we can go to.
I was frustrated with Amazon and started using Target. A much better experience overall, but especially the order process. Target for the win.
Damn check out them cakes at 7:30 !!!!!
Way too much
How's Amazon going to tell people to buy less when they're the only motherf*ckers open?😂
I only order things I need that I can't buy elsewhere because stores are closed. Or stuff I would normally get from Lowe's or Home Depot because those stores are scarily packed. I made a delivery day so that once a week one person can drop off my order. However, I got packages all broken up over random days. I ordered six things, all should've come yesterday. Instead I got one a day leading up to today, including my usual subscribe and save order. I was willing to wait over a week to ease some stress, and for some weird reason Amazon chose to have drivers running rampant.
Can I get a refund for my Prime? I can't seem to buy anything I need without having to wait a week. Walmart is cheaper and ships faster
I switch to E Bay because Amazon takes too long to deliver.
But with Ebay you're still dealing with individual sellers are you not? Hard to tell how long they take, getting your order out the door...
pr0xZen that’s why deal with reputable sellers. There individuals sellers on amazon as well
I also went back to ebay. Ordered a replacement bulb for my aquarium received in 3 days. amazon shipping eta was 2 weeks lol
@juannn321 Let the unemployed sell their green cards and citizenships to immigrants who will work harder for less
@@pr0xZen I'm an ebay seller, I have same day shipping.
A few points i observed with their financial statements:
The north american retail business’s operating income has decreased by 40% compared to Q1 of 2019 while the has gone up by $8 billion.
However, AWS, amazons cloud service, makes up of more than 50% of amazon’s income and continues to increase by like30% per annum, or quarter. So aws def offsets any losses brought about by amzn’s na and int’l business.
Its shipping cost to cost of sales increased to sth like 25% and its profit is at 2% or less.
The catch is, their na profit margin has been on a downward trend since the beginning of 2019. Used to be a good 5-6% back in 2018 and shipping Cost to cogs was at 20% mark. demand is popping for delivery, so what can you do about its shipping cost. I think they are working on logistics anyways to bring cost down, so thats hopeful.
I order often from Amazon, so I'm never in a rush for the product as long as it gets to me!
I actually ordered a lot more from Amazon since the beginning of March since I was stuck at home with nothing else to do but shop online. I don't recall seeing any encouragement from Amazon to shop less.
A VAT in place would have been great.
Sees video :goes straight to Amazon to order 3 things 👀😂
Working at the same time keeping 6 feet in an environment like our warehouse is ridiculous but i like it,
yet they cut the hazard pay they were giving their employees despite the spike
@juannn321 the demand will go away when the virus does.
So in about 3 years from now.
No way COVID-19 is going away anytime soon 😨
Hazard pay for what? Working LOL
@@maxinvasionleet yeah , we use to get hazardous pay (I hear they cut it)
But I dont mind, you can work up to 60 hrs a week tho
@@maxinvasionleet working with the risk of getting covid-19? I hope you haven't been living under a rock for the last few months. Even without Covid-19, any season with high demands usually get a pay raise during those times, now it is basically gone even with the large number of orders
Automation will be on the rise.
Oh Yeah! I can't wait! 😎😊
This was an issue before once amazon first started delivering. I think it was 2016 everyone said ups ruined Christmas (I'm a previous ups supervisor btw) but Amazon sent most of the packages they couldn't handle back at ups after they already started delivering their own packages, which flooded all the ups facilities in US 😂 From a logistics standpoint, it's pretty impressive that they can handle this volume in such a short amount of time.
Didums for Jeff on the loss of money.
Kudos for Jeff for being sensible and trying to keep things going
I'm allways looking at outdoor gear. They Completely stopped selling chairs ,ect ...
all say temporary out of service. !!!
*temporarily...sorry, I know.."Grammer Nazi" I just can't help it
As s Amazon Prime member I wasn't available to find my basics. I just started to use Boxed.com. I'm loving this company, Boxed.
Never heard of it
$15 for a 24 pack of coke and $12 for a bottle of ranch dressing? Lol. I'll take my risk at the supermarket. Never heard of boxed.com and now it makes sense why.
RS7JR this is clearly a bot advertising this weird website.
im ordered 3 things in the last two months from amazon. they showed up a month and a half later. (a small mirror, hand sanitizer and a cable for jumping a car's batteries) . now I know, I will stop using it till next year....
I work there. I pick orders to be sent out. I’m not working cause I recently fought cancer, I’m a type one diabetic, & suffer from low blood pressure. Sooo sorry public you need to be patient. I have a family just like you!
@7:33 👀
I knew i'd find one 😂😂😂
Iskra Lawrence
@@jaystrom2172 not all heroes wear capes... or lab coats 👨⚕️
*watches this
Me: "well, I did need to order that thing on amazon..."
I have also noticed Amazon have stopped sending notifications of items I left on my cart!
I cant even buy valve stem, valve stem cores and tools for my mechanic business to fix trucks that are essential.
They encouraged me to cancel amazon prime.
This is how robots will take over. Automation doesn’t take sick days.
Yes but instead of 1000 employees, you need 10 engineers
We gotta give it up to CNBC for all this free quality content
I ordered gummy bears and as an amazon prime member I should have been given the option for 1 day shipping
This is going to be a huge problem during the Holiday Season. Some stores are just going to cancel Black Friday deals and keep everything at regular price to slow sales and get their profit back.
i want small neighborhood Bodega back. Huge conglomerates get on my damned nerves , ay.
No telling what november looks like, but by the current outlook, promoting and pushing a consumer shopping fest in November seems like a bad idea.
Amazon , most customer centric company didnt give complete info about this action on their website
As a customer and a stockholder, I appreciate the white lie. I would not have wanted to see a message strewn across Amazon’s home page saying “Hey you, maybe don’t buy so much from us today.”
I think if amazon built its own hubs where products can be stored to pick up that would be efficient. Giving the user options for home delivery or hub pick up. It’d make shipping flow faster having chunk of packages from an area go to one spot. They have the money. And it be an option.
I guess it really worked, shipping times were ridiculous last two months. I did not renew my prime membership $120, which therefore I will be buying way less in the upcoming year.