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They should also investigate Amazon's treatment of their suppliers. I've worked in two supplier companies that would have preferred to not sell to Amazon, but e
by Sylos 8y ago
They should also investigate Amazon's treatment of their suppliers. I've worked in two supplier companies that would have preferred to not sell to Amazon, but essentially had no other choice.
In both of them, when sending something off to Amazon, we first of all got to rip off the bulk packaging, then individually packed each item in their oh-so-eco-friendly packaging (which I suppose still makes sense as they're individually sending those items out to customers), but then if it arrived at Amazon's warehouse and anything is wrong with that truck load, like a splinter from the pallet damaging one or two packages, then they would usually pack everything back onto the truck and send it back to us. Then we got to rip off their eco-friendly packaging to check each item, pack it again and send it off to Amazon again. The costs for sending the whole truck load back and forth, we as supplier got to pay.
To try to avoid this, we also specifically threw away pallets that would have even the slightest chance of splintering, or used them for other companies that we supplied to. So, in effect we got to put the Amazon deliveries in their eco-friendly packaging onto the shiniest dead trees that you'll ever see.