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Amazon is now the only store open. This will clearly accelerate the death of retail, to the point that I'm not even sure it will survive. We must have a rent holiday if those businesses and their workers are to survive.
>Amazon is now the only store open. I've had Amazon Fresh cancel two orders so far so I'm not sure how open they are.
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In my area (midwest) Amazon (Prime) delivery is out to about 4 days. But it does seem to depend on the item. I ordered a tennis racquet "Prime" yesterday that was in stock and the quoted delivery isn't until Friday / Saturday. Prime Now is now unavailable entirely. At checkout, it simply says "No delivery times available" for all stores. Amazon Fresh also gives no available delivery windows.
According to a news article from yesterday, Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods delivery have been stopped.
We notice delivery on Amazon is out to 3-4 days now (on prime) and were not sure if it was due to supply or demand. Seems like demand.
Same. I honestly don't mind if my orders are arriving a little later, I just hope they treat their warehouse workers better.
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At least the airlines will get another bailout, after selfishly spending billions on stock buybacks while shrinking seats and hiking fees. Meanwhile, Joe Average, who ended up running a food truck when Wells Fargo "right sized" him during the last recession, will find a comfortable slab of concrete upon which to rest his head, under the viaduct.
Look, I complain about wealth inequality more than anyone I know. Stock buybacks had A LOT of problems people don't discuss. But this isn't really what ruined the airlines. UAL -- the hardest hit and worst buyback offender -- bought back $1.2Bn in 2015, $2Bn in 2016, $3Bn in 2017, $1.2Bn in 2018, and $3Bn in 2019. That's a total of $10.4Bn. To my knowledge, less than 4% of that was on borrowed money. They returned ro…
Amazon seems pretty constrained by supply to me right now. Everything I have looked for to stock up on from them due to the current conditions (alcohol wipes, nonperishable food, etc) is sold out. But maybe they have scaled up supply more than I realize and workers are becoming more of a bottleneck than inventory. Even if everything was in stock I'd expect my overall online purchases to decline in the next few months…
> Everything I have looked for to stock up on from them due to the current conditions (alcohol wipes, nonperishable food, etc) is sold out. Do you have any idea what the full industrial capacity of the American economy is? These type of basic items are all dead-simple to manufacture, and highly unlikely to run into supply-chain interruptions. I guarantee you that once Americans get the full on prepping instinct out o…
We are a few weeks ahead of you here in Australia on the panic buying and toilet paper is one of the few things we actually produce here.
But it's still impossible to get in most places a few weeks after the panic buying first happened. People seem to buy it immediately on reflex, and people who didn't panic buy are beginning to panic search for it.
One factor is that toilet paper is a bulky item, which makes the logistics of shipping and storage tricky. But still! I'm very surprised at how fragile this (fairly simple) supply chain has proven.
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Fantasy-land aside, Bezos is the CEO of the organization that runs the GovCloud AWS region, which is almost certainly designated critical military infrastructure, JEDI-loss aside. I would be astounded if there are many billionaires in the USA who are not this moment already taking chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine in the recommended prophylaxis doses, even outside of those deemed mission-critical by the most powerful or…
I’m a bit confused why would an anti-parasite drug be used now for covid-19
More reading:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550
https://www.recipharm.com/press/recipharm-notes-increased-de...
https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/988648/...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04303507
https://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/potential-pipeline-medica...
https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/comment/parallel-e...
If this were a Bond movie, Bezos would be cackling in his secret lair about how his viral plan was coming to fruition. Bond (played by Idris Elba) would then cough on Bezos, who would whip out his antidote, which Bond would grab, escape, and release to the world before being killed by Thanos. (Pitch Meeting, call me)
> ...before being killed by Thanos. I read Theranos at first.
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I agree but I see this as a problem we could fix using financial tools. Rather than letting thousands if not millions of small business and jobs completely gone.
Or face a total financial system meltdown if the fix is poorly implemented. I think the simplest solution is for the fed/government to simply give everybody cash, since the root of the problem is that a lot of people have temporarily lost their incomes due to their jobs being essentially banned in response to the pandemic (eg a lot of people in retail outside of supermarkets/food). Anything that involves nonpayment i…