Blah, blah, and more “Blah”.
Go bother someone else.
I love Amazon Prime. Just last week, I woke up at 3:00 in the morning, remembering something I needed from the store. Picked up my phone, ordered it via same day delivery from Amazon, and it was waiting for me in an Amazon Locker a mile from my house after I got off of work that day. Didn’t even have to step inside a store and deal with those long lines.
Just making an observation. You incessantly defend every Republican politician and position but always claim you’re not one an I feel it’s a copout. When was the last time you voted for anyone other than a Republican for President?
No I don’t. If you’re going to keep on this line I’m not even going to bother with you.
I’m an independent and a conservative, I support conservative ideas and ideals and always have. When republicans are wrong I call them on it, when I disagree with a republican policy or proposal I say so.
You folks have as a party gone so far left I can’t find a democrat running for national office anywhere I can support and it’s getting pretty rare to even find one in my own state anymore but I have yet to ever vote a straight ticket and last time around I refused to even vote for the position of POTUS because of the available candidates.
Nothing he is doing is illegal.
Oh really? When did the OSHA and DOL inspectors issue their report?
why hasn’t the workplace been shut down?
Back to this?
The fact is you have no idea whether he’s been given a clean bill of health by all of the regulatory agencies or when their last inspections were.
The local business thank you. I wish there were more people like you! 
110 items in the last 6 months (farthest I could go back on mobile). Haven’t had any issues personally.
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Adapt to what exactly?
Welcome to economics? You have NO idea what you are talking about. If you had ever owned a Mom and Pop store you would not globally make such an assumption.
I will give you an example of why mom and pops stores are more expensive
Company X buys widgets. The more widgets they buy, the lower the cost. Company X can buy 5,000 widgets once a month at $1.00 per widget and they are distributed to multiple locations.
Mom and Pop store buys the same widgets. They can only buy 200 widgets per month. Cost per widget is $2.75.
Company X and Mom and Pop have the same profit margin. Who’s widget is going to be more expensive?
To adapt, Mom and Pop lower their prices to compete with Company X. Who is making a higher profit margin?
Company X doesn’t like that Mom and Pop are competition. Company X lowers their price. Mom and Pop can’t lower their price or they won’t be able to cover overhead expenses.
Mom and Pop are effectually forced out of business.
And now I have to take myself to my own brick and mortar, mom and pop company where I have the experience to know what the hell I’m talking about.
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Company X was also able to negotiate a 10 year tax abatement so they don’t have to pay property taxes on that 50m dollar facility for 10 years.
Assuming 10 years later they are still in business they won’t be paying the rate on the facility when it was new, they’ll be paying on the depreciated value as it has dropped and continues to over time.
The Amazon warehouses? I don’t know.
As I mentioned high above pick-and-pack warehouse work has always been a tough, grueling fast-paced, got-mo-time-for-breaks job.
It’s not as tough as coal mining or farming army infantry but even on a good day it is a hell of a lot more like mining coal than like restocking sunglasses at WalMart, flipping burgers cleaning offices, driving Uber etc.).
Therefore, traditionally, it pays more than McJobs and the traditionally the teamsters have no trouble unionizing any such shop provided the individual employees last long enough to hold a vote.
Jeff Bezos fancies himself as a libertarian (although the hyphenated lefty-libertarian may be necessary to distinguish him from the Paulbot-libertarians, the cowboy-libertarians etc.), so when I read a trickle of MSM stories about bad conditions at the Amazon warehouses I first thought the MSM was giving voice to snowflakes who had downloaded a naivete app on their IPhones.
But Sean has put together an impressive array of artickes, so NOW I think Bezis probably has crossed the line.
My opinion may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. (wink)
above @CanadianJudo
New trends, competitive pricing, competitive pay, variety of products?
What I said is absolutely correct, so tugging at our heartstrings isn’t going to change the facts of what I said. It’s economics 101. If you can’t adapt, and change, and stay competitive, you go out of business. Not all businesses will succeed and prosper in a capitalist economy.
So here are the problems:
- It’s not Company X’s fault mom and pop can’t offer the same price, or better. Mom and pop are going to either have to renegotiate their deal for widgets, find a different widget supplier, or stop offering widgets and offer doodads instead. This is business.If Burger Joint X moves in and offers a combo for 5.99, then Burger Joint A’s 8.99 combo is no longer appealing, and if they don’t try to compete with X’s price (or offer something great quality for the price, or make their combo more appealing) then X is going to hurt A’s business.
That’s capitalism. It FEELS bad, but that’s what competition is SUPPOSED to do.
Nothing you have said is incorrect, but that’s business. You’re literally just describing how business/economics/capitalism work. Not everyone is a winner when it comes to owning a business. Most don’t make it, for any number of reasons-one of which is being able to compete. When you can no longer compete, you go out of business. It sucks, but that’s how economies function.
I keep watching Shark Tank.
I keep seeing them invest in ma and pa businesses that want to sell their stuff in existing big box stores and/or sell their stuff on the Internet.
Regardless of product or price those billionaires don’t seem to be investinh in any business that requires $3,000/month rent per store AND requires the consumer to go to any address they are not already going to anyway.
I guess ma and pa businesses are now about the product
- and -
ma and pa businesses based on overhead intensive boutiques requiring the consumer to spend time just to decide if he wants to buy your product us going away.
Oh well ma and pa.
If those billionaires are right then its time to focus on the product and give up on the dinosaur of product distribution.
Sorry about yout luck.
Stated differently.
My local Sam’s Club sells over 300 rotisserie chickens per day, that’s one every two minutes.
There is no limit, but almost all the sales are for ONE chicken.
By contrast, open a boutique and regardless of whether you position yourself as ma and pa or as a trendy gay gluten free hipster, in a similar location you are NOT going to get 300 individual shoppers to come in your door to accept a free chicken.
If those billionaires are right, the old distribution model, (the boutique) is going the way of shopping in the city, going to arcade to play a video game and the door-to-door fuller brush salesman.
The overhead costs and low traffic counts are killing boutiques. It’s time for ma and pa to STOP investing their life savings in overhead to distribute and sell other people’s products. It’s time to create their own product and let someone else distribute and sell it.
Where are you going to buy your next hammer?
It’s a simple switch really.
Stop selling someone else’s stuff in your store.
Start selling your stuff in someone else’s store.
Interesting… I was somewhat aware of that but only in vague terms. Thank you for such a clear explanation.
Sincerest apologies if I got off on a rant. I was coming off a heated discussion elsewhere and may have unloaded on you.
I am usually thoughtful when posting business stuff.
