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How is Amazon a logistics company? They use the major carriers like everyone else. Their distribution centers are nothing amazing, and only now are starting to
by cylinder 9y ago
How is Amazon a logistics company? They use the major carriers like everyone else. Their distribution centers are nothing amazing, and only now are starting to be automated. They're only just starting to run their own last-mile delivery and I can tell you from experience they're pretty awful at it. They run the logistics trope as a pitch for Wall Street. They are regular e-commerce, with massive scale on the back of being able to raise a lot of money and poor labor practices.
- nickpsecurity 9y agoThey're so awful at all of it that they got it done better than the competition consistently for a decade. Maybe you underestimate how awful the competition is. I've seen a lot of logistics and warehouse firms. They're consistently full of bullshit and inefficiencies. The latter come from politics or avoiding sensible investments. Amazon could apply their same principles of cost-effective retail, logistics and software to IT to come up with a cloud. It's not a huge leap or anything. Just requires different talent hired to focus on the concept with same principles. It helps that the competition that did pay on demand for enterprises kept prices up and tech proprietary as much as possible. Not too unlike some of Amazon's retail competition in brick and mortar.