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We don't know what Amazon's order flow is, but if it is reasonably uniform then it doesn't make sense. Stalling super saver orders for several days doesn't sav
by rogerbinns 13y ago
We don't know what Amazon's order flow is, but if it is reasonably uniform then it doesn't make sense. Stalling super saver orders for several days doesn't save you any work or priorities. It still has to be shipped and new orders still come in.
If the higher priority orders are very lumpy then it does make far more sense to process them first and have variability in the response time for the super saver orders.
Without some sort of crowdsourcing effort we can't tell what everyone's actual experience is. The anecdotal data so far is delays in Amazon's lowest tier happen that don't exist at their competitors. The story is about them spending more on warehouses, so something doesn't add up.
- ericd 13y agoYeah, I considered that, but order volume is almost certainly not uniform over the course of the week. Any web company could tell you that load varies quite a bit over the course of the week, and I'm sure shopping is the same. From everything I've heard, they're an aggressively frugal company, so I would guess that they don't have the packing capacity to handle their peak days of the week, but they do have enough to handle the total week's load. Their competitors are probably overprovisioned to improve their consistency, but that leads to higher prices.
- lmm 13y agoDoes that match your ordering experience? Because for me Amazon have been more consistent - super saver items are consistently delivered at the end of the delivery window. Other retailers seem to have a wider distribution like you describe.
- ericd 13y agoHm, that is interesting. It's been a couple of years since I last used Super Saver shipping, so they might have changed, but I remember it being pretty variable, between slow and super slow.