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Money saved on labour means you can spend more money on more labour! Or you can buy more machines, or you could invest in a project to reduce packaging times, e
by jbob2000 7y ago
Money saved on labour means you can spend more money on more labour! Or you can buy more machines, or you could invest in a project to reduce packaging times, etc. etc. There's probably not a direct correlation between saving on security checks and reduced shipping time, but it's all connected. Maybe paying these wages means there's no money for more robots, so packaging things will take longer?
- SolaceQuantum 7y ago" Maybe paying these wages means there's no money for more robots, so packaging things will take longer?" It's not like Amazon is running a zero sum balance sheet here. They have profits this could take out of and maintain all their service and speed.
- Dylan16807 7y ago> Maybe paying these wages means there's no money for more robots, so packaging things will take longer? Packing an individual box takes minutes. So it's a question of capacity, and it's pretty binary. If they have enough capacity then a large majority of items can ship within a couple hours. If they don't have enough capacity then the 90th percentile shipping time becomes indefinite/never. A situation where packaging takes an extra day, end of story, is unlikely and unstable. And I'd say that some robots are R&D, so not having money for them has no effect on shipping times, and the rest are a cost-saving measure, so they'll always have the money.
- pnutjam 7y agoNot the workers problem.