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Couldn't they simply require all goods to come to FBA pre-packaged, so it's all in a box, and boxes could be easier to grab since they're all square, etc? then
by gremlinsinc 4y ago
Couldn't they simply require all goods to come to FBA pre-packaged, so it's all in a box, and boxes could be easier to grab since they're all square, etc? then put all the boxes by size in the warehouse, so robots could specialize?
- mabbo 4y agoThat increases the volume of each item- sometimes significantly. That impacts storage density, but it isn't the only issue. I know everyone loves to complain when Amazon sends a too-large box for one item, but sometimes you order seven items and get a perfectly packed box. If everything is inside yet another box, that gets really hard to do. Plus, that's a lot of extra cardboard to pay shipping rates for. Plus, lots of vendors (FBA or normal) just wouldn't do it. The labour costs of adding those boxes adds up. Imagine if every pack of 3 pens needed to be individually boxed.