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Post by sjg007 »

vonmoltke wrote: post #211
VectorLock wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

I can't even place an Amazon Fresh order right now, and the earliest Peapod delivery date I can get is 28MAR.

It's kind of strange to see a complete breakdown in online ordering and delivery of groceries. Target etc... basically shut down curbside delivery because they need people to restock shelves. That means you have to visit the store. Odd. I expect to see grocery only delivery companies really take shape soon (like Instacart).

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Post by thathndude »

markovbot wrote: post #262
QuadrupleA wrote: post #235

Hard to find a non-cynical comment on HN these days, so I'll just say: this is cool. A way for people to get crucial goods in a relatively safe way, and some new jobs with a pay boost in a time of economic instability.

Amazon is profiting off a global health crisis. How could one not be cynical?

And the hospitals that will bill for treatment of coronavirus? Profiting off a global health crisis?

Providing basic necessities (I just bought some flour on Amazon and gladly paid for it) is not profiting off a crisis.

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Post by thathndude »

teejmya wrote: post #26
tedmiston wrote: post #14

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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.

Colorado, I ordered some grilling stuff yesterday and it's another three days out. They're definitely struggling for the same reason grocery stores are; it's not a stock limitation, it's not enough hands to move it.

If amazon, a master of logistics, is struggling, imagine some of these other e-tailers and online shops.

Got an email from a company i do work with, and they’re calling for 21 day delays for shipping items, and suspending new orders. Just because they literally cannot package and ship fast enough.

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Post by thathndude »

Symbiote wrote: post #27
robotnikman wrote: post #23

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Same. I honestly don't mind if my orders are arriving a little later, I just hope they treat their warehouse workers better.

I wish they'd treat their warehouse workers better, and pay a fair tax, so until they do I'm not buying anything from Amazon . I use alternative, usually local or national rather than multinational, suppliers.

You typing on an iPhone? Ever use Google to find your alternative suppliers?

Every big company is playing the tax game. It would be irresponsible of them not to.

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Post by mschuster91 »

AQuantized wrote: post #87
WalterBright wrote: post #72

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And Amazon makes money by providing people with goods and services that they need in a manner safer than alternatives. Nothing wrong with that.

There's nothing wrong with that in of itself, but if it stomps out any potential competition and renders them unable to compete after a certain degree of monopolization, what sort of position will consumers eventually be placed in?

> what sort of position will consumers eventually be placed in?

In a pretty shitty one. That is the ultimate goal of modern cut-throat capitalism: get utter market domination, destroy all competition and once that is done, raise the prices as far as possible without attracting too much protest from the few regulatory institutions that remain.

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Post by lopis »

peter303 wrote: post #195
hirundo wrote: post #68

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)

Give Bezos a break. His companies allows quarantined people to suffer less.

So do plenty of others? Last I checked, most supermarkets, electronic stores, clothes stores, etc, all have online shops. Oh and mind you, those shops usually have curated list of products, not scamy products imported from China and sold at massive markups and inflated with fake reviews...

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Post by LOLShiner »

hirundo wrote: post #68

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)

Yeah it seems to be a designer-virus, indeed; it's not CIA, I guess Chinese Intelligence, Russia wouldn't directly bother with this. -- Too thin Hollywood'esuqe story; which means designed, OK, I'm CIA and would know about this. Don't blame anyone else than the Chinese mu friends, I know Cia did not design this drug. Don't delete dang

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Post by mav3rick »

sudhirj wrote: post #276
mixmastamyk wrote: post #261

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And yet they used it that way at the end of infinity war.

Not to rewind. Rewind implies changing something in your own past, but nobody's past changed. Only the futures of different timelines, if that makes sense.

A good way to think of this is a git checkout from anywhere . And then all future commits happen in a branch / detached head state, not affecting the place you checked out from i.e. original timeline.
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