"Amazon is a massive wrecking machine
consuming American retail. It's looting
the economy and leaving behind
rubble."
DANIEL GREENFIELD
Amazon is about to kill off thousands of small businesses
rubble."
In his annual letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive and the world’s richest man, regularly likes to boast how much his company is helping small business thrive.
Sometimes the 56-year-old billionaire will pick out companies that have done particularly well. At other times he will present figures showing how independent sellers now make up 58 per cent of all items on the online retailer’s website worldwide, demonstrating how their sales are growing faster than those of Amazon itself.
That was before the pandemic hit and everything changed. In one fell swoop, Amazon has proved the power it has over hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide who have found themselves mercilessly reliant on the decisions of a single operator.
For nearly two decades, third-party sellers have been able to use a feature with the online retail giant called Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA). This allows sellers to use Amazon’s vast network of warehouses to store, pick, pack and ship their customers’ orders for a fee. There are roughly 2.1 million active independent sellers on Amazon, including just under 300,000 business in the UK, and only 6 per cent of them don’t use the FBA feature.
Now, however, Amazon has cut that short. Overwhelmed by the sudden surge in orders for basic goods, such as toilet roll, nappies and pet food, Bezos announced last month all third-party sellers of non-essential items could no longer use Amazon’s warehouses and shipping feature. Independent merchants can continue to sell non-essential products on the website but they have to manage everything else on their own. The suspension was due to end at the start of this week but now Amazon has told third-party sellers it does not know when operations will be fully restored.
Book publishers have described the decision as “devastating”, while many businesses are now fearful they will go bankrupt. The policy has a ripple effect. Writers are now struggling to get their books sold, manufacturers lose their clients, British winemakers struggle to ship abroad. Businesses have been rushing to find alternative ways to get their products to customers, some going as far as driving them to customers’ doorsteps themselves.
At a time of need, this army of third-party sellers who helped fuel Amazon’s $280 billion revenue in 2019 have been left out in the cold. When the pandemic subsides, the nation’s regulators should ensure one company cannot hold so much sway over so many. Yet in reality, by that time, it seems many businesses may well have gone bankrupt while Amazon will be stronger than ever.
Amazon must love coronavirus
With the guidance from our elitist betters to stay home and order everything in, corporations like Amazon must be making a mint. I can't speak for others, but I'm so disappointed with Amazon that I'm well on my way to remaining with Amazon only for digital content that I've already purchased. I'm that disgusted.
I'm sure Amazon has competent software people to implement its search algorithms, so it must be purposeful that they don't work as expected. You can try to make a narrowly targeted search phrase, but Amazon opens it up to things that aren't the slightest bit related. On top of that, "free" delivery is included in the price (so it costs more), and the item is sometimes not available for over a month.
For example, you can certainly search for "water enhancer with electrolytes." It didn't limit itself to showing me water enhancers with added electrolytes. It included basic water flavorings and water enhancers with vitamins but not electrolytes. Is this an electronic version of making customers walk past everything in the store to buy the most popular items, to take advantage of impulse buying? I suspect so. It's almost as annoying as the brick-and-mortar version of the ploy, but at least I'm not abusing my arthritic knees trying to get the one item I need at the back of the store. I'm also not buying their water enhancer because I'm ticked off.
Try searching for "made in USA" items. (Skip looking for "not made in China." That only selects for "made in China.") The search results include a number of items that do not say "made in USA" anywhere in the product description. Asking about the manufacturer often yields the information (from an Amazon customer who has purchased the item) that the product was made in China, Vietnam, Cambodia, etc. To me, this goes beyond the annoyance of clutter into deceptive advertising. Sure, Amazon has a liberal return policy, but you still have the inconvenience of picking it up and returning it, and the additional delay before you try again to get an item that was really manufactured in the USA.
Enter the Amazon love for coronavirus argument: we would order a lot less and tolerate a lot less annoyance in normal times, when we could go get basics at local stores. We would make more of our own food instead of buying Ramen at double to triple the in-store price. We would go to restaurants only a few times per week. If you're unemployed on top of coronavirus worries, you cannot afford to live as if you had income. That credit card is going to have to be paid for eventually.
Welcome to shopping slavery. And you thought you had it bad before.
THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WAGES WAR
ON AMERICA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/bill-gates-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos.html
Despite a booming economy, many U.S. households
are still just holding on
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-recovery-that-never-happened-except.html
"One of the premier institutions of big business, JP
Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the eve of the
10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that
another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a
government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama
will produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact
of central bank actions in driving inequality between
asset owners and labor."
Jim Carrey: America ‘Doomed’ If We Don’t Regulate Capitalism"
The American phenomenon of record stock values fueling an ever greater concentration of wealth at the very top of society, while the economy is starved of productive investment, the social infrastructure crumbles, and working class living standards are driven down by entrenched unemployment, wage-cutting and government austerity policies, is part of a broader global process."
"Today, each of the top 5 billionaires owns as much as
750 million people, more than the total population of Latin America
and double the population of the US."
THIS
SHITBAG BILLIONAIRE IS MOVING AMAZON TO INDIA BECAUSE HE BELIEVES PAYING LIVING
WAGES TO AMERICANS IS DAMNED COMMIE!!!
THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WAGES WAR
ON AMERICA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/bill-gates-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos.html
"GOP estb. is using the $5 billion border-wall fight to hide
up to four blue/white-
collar cheap-labor programs in lame-duck DHS budget. Donors are
worried that
salaries are too damn high, & estb. media does not want to
know."
TOP EVIL CORPORATIONS LOOTING AMERICA
Goldman
Sachs TRUMP CRONIES – CLINTON CRONIES
JPMorgan
Chase OBAMA CRONIES
ExxonMobil
Halliburton BUSH CRIME FAMILY CRONIES
British American Tobacco
Dow Chemical
DuPont
Bayer
Microsoft
Google
CLINTON CRONIES
Facebook
OBAMA CRONIES
Amazon
Walmart
Despite a booming economy, many U.S. households
are still just holding on
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-recovery-that-never-happened-except.html
"One of the premier institutions of big business, JP
Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the eve of the
10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that
another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a
government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama
will produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact
of central bank actions in driving inequality between
asset owners and labor."
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican
alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world
hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.”
---- Karen McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com
“Behind the
ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no
allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this
invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business
and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.” THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
Jim Carrey: America ‘Doomed’ If We Don’t Regulate Capitalism"
The American phenomenon of record stock values fueling an ever greater concentration of wealth at the very top of society, while the economy is starved of productive investment, the social infrastructure crumbles, and working class living standards are driven down by entrenched unemployment, wage-cutting and government austerity policies, is part of a broader global process."
The father of US
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin just completed the most
expensive purchase of a living artist’s work in
US history, spending over $91 million on a three-foot-tall metallic
sculpture. Ken Griffin, the founder of hedge fund Citadel,
recently dropped $238 million on a penthouse in New York City, the
most expensive US home ever purchased. And Amazon’s Jeff Bezos,
the world’s richest man, has invested $42 million in a 10,000-year
clock.
Decades of decaying capitalism have led
to this accelerating divide. While the rich accumulate wealth with no
restriction, workers’ wages and benefits have been under increasing attack. In
1979, 90 percent of the population took in 70 percent of the nation’s income.
But, by 2017, that fell to only 61 percent.
"This is how they will destroy
America from within. The leftist billionaires who
orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing
us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of
millions of migrants. They have nothing but contempt
for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities
being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and
human traffickers. These people have no intention
of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have
contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
In 2014 the Russell Sage Foundation
found that between 2003 and 2013, the median household net worth of those
in the United States fell from $87,992 to $56,335—a drop of 36 percent. While
the rich also saw their wealth drop during the recession, they are more than
making that money back.
Between 2009 and 2012, 95 percent of all
the income gains in the US went to the top 1 percent. This is the most
distorted post-recession income gain on record.
"Amazon is a massive wrecking machine consuming
American retail. It's looting the economy and leaving behind rubble. " ---
DANIEL GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG
AMAZON’S
ASSAULT ON AMERICA CONTINUES
Amazon, the multinational online retail
conglomerate, is importing more foreign workers to the United States to take
coveted tech industry jobs than Facebook and Google combined. JOHN BINDER
"Amazon
is a massive wrecking machine consuming American retail. It's looting the
economy and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG
"Today, each of the top 5 billionaires owns as much as
750 million people, more than the total population of Latin America
and double the population of the US."
“A comprehensive new
report released Sunday by the New York-based labor rights watchdog China Labor
Watch (CLW) has shed new light on the barbaric and illegal practices that
Amazon employs to boost its profits by driving down production costs on the
backs of factory workers at the company’s electronics assembly plants in China.”
*
*
“A comprehensive new
report released Sunday by the New York-based labor rights watchdog China Labor
Watch (CLW) has shed new light on the barbaric and illegal practices that
Amazon employs to boost its profits by driving down production costs on the
backs of factory workers at the company’s electronics assembly plants in
China.”
Amazon, the multinational online retail
conglomerate, is importing more foreign workers to the United States to take
coveted tech industry jobs than Facebook and Google combined. JOHN BINDER
"Amazon
is a massive wrecking machine consuming American retail. It's looting the
economy and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG
AMAZON’S JEFF BEZOS IS THE
FACE OF MODERN SLAVERY!
The gains for
employees are a novel pain for the investors and employers who have been able to hold down wages for decades
because the federal government is trying to grow the economy via cheap-labor
legal immigration.
“INVESTORS”
HAVE AND WILL DESTROY THIS NATION IF IT WOULD IMPACT THE NEXT QUARTER’S
EARNINGS!
Amazon, the multinational online retail
conglomerate, is importing more foreign workers to the United States to take
coveted tech industry jobs than Facebook and Google combined. JOHN BINDER
"Amazon
is a massive wrecking machine consuming American retail. It's looting the
economy and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG
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