"Privatize the profits, socialise the costs" may as well be Amazon's corporate motto by this point.
I feel for sellers who are faced with a slowly shortening list of alternatives to sell their products via to get as wide a customer base as possible, and feel pushed onto Amazon by its ubiquity. It's a shit service for sellers.
Oh come on ill give you that in 90% of corporate enshitification cases but if this was true amazon wouldnt still be the cheapest option for buying anything. I hate amazon as much as the next but lets be accurate here. Amazon Prime video, maybe but as far as deliverable goods, come on. They got walmart beat at their own game of lowest cost products.
Honestly this is one of my signs for the collapse of the US economy. The other is collapse of goods being taken into Florida since that was an economically hard route to begin with. My last marker just before total collapse is the abandonment of trans continental trade outside of rail freight, possibly including the effective market collapse in the fly over states.
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pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 163d
"Privatize the profits, socialise the costs" may as well be Amazon's corporate motto by this point.
I feel for sellers who are faced with a slowly shortening list of alternatives to sell their products via to get as wide a customer base as possible, and feel pushed onto Amazon by its ubiquity. It's a shit service for sellers.
11111one11111@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
Oh come on ill give you that in 90% of corporate enshitification cases but if this was true amazon wouldnt still be the cheapest option for buying anything. I hate amazon as much as the next but lets be accurate here. Amazon Prime video, maybe but as far as deliverable goods, come on. They got walmart beat at their own game of lowest cost products.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 149d
https://lemmy.world/post/45703415
See this for more evidence.
Reality_Suit@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 163d
And Bezos could take a slight pay cut that he wouldn't even notice to help cover costs. But, no, the greedy rich are going to be grredy.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 18 pts · 163d
No extra charge is temporary.
wizzor@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 163d
Do they pass the revenue to their logistics 'partners'?
sidebro@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 163d
Hardly, and you know it
ericheese@piefed.social · 4 pts · 162d
Not called the "trump surcharge" smh
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 162d
Honestly this is one of my signs for the collapse of the US economy. The other is collapse of goods being taken into Florida since that was an economically hard route to begin with. My last marker just before total collapse is the abandonment of trans continental trade outside of rail freight, possibly including the effective market collapse in the fly over states.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 163d
So... its dynamic pricing, applied to their vendors.
That's sure to be a stable paradigm.