> Or do away with the warehouse altogether and have products ship directly from manufacturers. I wonder if anyone has tried that? Erm... manufacturers have bee

> Or do away with the warehouse altogether and have products ship directly from manufacturers. I wonder if anyone has tried that? Erm... manufacturers have been shipping their own products for years... but they're not very good at it, compared to Amazon? As in, they offer standard slow shipping (vs. same-day or next-day with Prime), shipping you have to pay for per item (vs. Prime), shipping that is often unreasonably expensive (vs. Prime) and have other issues resulting in a worse UX e.g. poorer website design, and/or signing up for individual accounts with every website (vs. Prime).