7 doesn't contradict 2. If you are the loss prevention VP in charge of stopping theft, and you reduced the number of reshipped items, you are decreasing a cost

7 doesn't contradict 2. If you are the loss prevention VP in charge of stopping theft, and you reduced the number of reshipped items, you are decreasing a cost account. The revenue account for sold goods was already increased when the item was sold. The revenue account belongs to the retail group. They look good as long as sales are made. The cost account belongs to the LP group. They start out looking very BAD with huge losses and have to fight to get their costs back to zero. For this reason large companies might group all their cost groups such as shipping, LP, fraud, etc into one big organization with special protections so they won't be cannibalized by revenue generating groups that have more political power. > That's enough to put a dev on this problem for a year with required infra and still save some extra money - just from that single pawn shop. If LP saves 400k, retail doesn't cut them a check for the 400k. They are on fixed budget, usually small because it is considered good money after bad. And at Amazon it is easier for devs and managers just to transfer to a shiny new AWS project than try to reduce costs.