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They even have a patent for shipping orders to customers before they are anticipated to purchase it (pre-order delivery!). http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/
Whoever dreamed that up was watching minority report.
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Well they also have planes and delivery people... It's not that far off. They also have distro centers all over the place so orders frequently come from within a few hours away (or less!) and not a few states away. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-secretive-air-cargo-opera...
Yes. I was going to point out the same thing: http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/24/9790916/amazon-air-cargo-...
Meh, no Manac underride guards [1], [2]. [1]: http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-unwraps-new-truck-trailers-j... [2]: http://www.trucknews.com/health-safety/trailer-underride-gua...
From people I know in the trucking business, the problem with delivering to Amazon's warehouses is inefficiencies in getting the trucks into and out of the yard. They're just not being run well. Stories of 50-truck-long queues being run off by the local police for blocking entrances to other nearby businesses.. Hopefully this will help, as the trucks can deadhead[0] to their warehouse and do a drop/hook[1], with the…
I have driven by Amazon warehouses before and never seen this happen once. Do you have examples?
My initial interpretation of the title was that someone at Amazon had managed to purchase truck trailers for Amazon on Amazon.
From people I know in the trucking business, the problem with delivering to Amazon's warehouses is inefficiencies in getting the trucks into and out of the yard. They're just not being run well. Stories of 50-truck-long queues being run off by the local police for blocking entrances to other nearby businesses.. Hopefully this will help, as the trucks can deadhead[0] to their warehouse and do a drop/hook[1], with the…
I have driven by Amazon warehouses before and never seen this happen once. Do you have examples?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Trucking/comments/3uzlzs/16_hours_a...?
Having their own trailers allows them to explore the roboticization of loading and unloading them now. i.e. Kiva Robotics meets truck trailer loading and unloading.
Moving their inventory into trucks but still tracked and managed by their Kiva Robotics systems also lets them reduce land costs and possibly even eliminate nexus in certain states for tax reasons since they could have these mini warehouses drive from a low tax state to a high tax state for deployment.
Amazon is following Walmart playbook. This is what Walmart did to make sure timely (Just-in-Time) Delivery between their warehouse and retail locations. There are business case study on how Walmart used their own freight truck network to beat their retail rivals by dedicating more space in a retail store to retail shelves instead of storing inventory.
WalMart was the first retail network to roll up the whole day every day into a single ( green-bar) report on Mr. Sam's desk.
People who do not understand WalMart are doomed to reinvent it.