Amazon

While I work there and appreciate it, it's the front line workers who need our thoughts the most.
It's a fricking tragedy we can't supply enough PPE to them...

 

Mi BIL works at UPS. Comp case that really doesn’t want to work or really does work at anything. He’s paranoid about the virus spreading to him now after him and his wife did everything hey could to convince my wife to go to Florida. He called me today, I just gave him tons of chit about this is nothing, you ain’t going to die. It’ll be over in a week.

 

We had our first positive at my center this past week, They told us Friday..
on thursday a doctor sent a covid sample thru ground and it busted open on the belt, he didn't package it very well, nor did he seal the sample..
The two are not related..

 

Yeah. Lots of people are trying to do the right things. Some fail miserably. Some are innocent bystanders. BIL is just lazy and keeps lawyers on hand for all his incidents. If you can’t afford it by working just sue someone.

 

I started ordering the things from amazon I need ahead of time in February , through the month of March I have been getting my orders fairly quick but the last order I put in few days ago everything is going to be delivered pretty slow.
I bought a bunch of paper towels and toilet paper from amazon in November , I still have enough of those
I have had grocery orders delivered to my porch from Kroger Meijers and Walmart

 

Amazon supposedly is taking orders and shipping on a priority basis. If you are looking for non-essential items like toys and some electronic consumer goods, fuhgetaboutit. It's not happening. Apparently if you order something in the middle range of essentiality and get a 6-8 week delivery date that could just be where you are on the list of people who also want the same item(s). Or it is on the list of things they are not handling for a while. They are doing all they can to help with redirecting supply chains they wouldn't normally deal with to help with supplying essential items through their own supply chains. Amazon supposedly can't hire fast enough for the pushing they are trying to do. I went to order a chainsaw spark plug and it was going to take 6 weeks. There's a chance it would come in 3 days , but I really don't need it life-or-death. Ship high priority items, I can wait.

I just happened to check Costco for TP Friday afternoon and was shocked that they were fully stocked. For about twenty minutes. Then all the TP items had an out of stock banner across them. I could have bought a package if I hadn't gone to look what other size packages they had and for what prices. You snooze or procrastinate you lose.

Locally a Walgreens got a cease and desist order to close from the health department because three employees have come down with the Wuhan flu. If that starts happening everywhere the looting will start.

 

That are only accepting new deliveries to Amazon warehouses if it's essential product. The trampolines, treadmills, and toupees are only being shipped if it was already in stock.

 

Supply chain is the key word here. Amazon is just a mega retailer.
I went through my filter/basic wear part inventory and restocked ahead 18 months . Also buying tools I think I may need in the next 18 months. The issue is after production lines shut down and retailers warehouse inventories are worked down ,,, there ain’t jack chit left to buy. In a deep recession manufacturers are going to quit buying input materials , work down their on hand materials and run lean till shut down. When they fire back up raw materials to manufacture end products may be hard to get for awhile . Just depends how deep this gets. Things could get ugly if it is a prolonged shutdown.

 

Yes, Supply Chain is the key terminology. My profession as a Buyer is only going to get more difficult.

 

If it's a product Amazon warehouses for sale it should ship in a reasonable amount of time. Not necessarily the two day prime people are used to.
They won't accept things from people to be sold the way they used to.
I've seen longer delivery estimates, but often stuff arrived early.

Their business is way up due to people who refuse to leave the house ordering everything online, plus all those people stuck at home with nothing to do are ordering a lot more Random stuff the moment they think of it.

This was a phenomenon we saw in the freight world after every Monday holiday, a spike in Amazon boxes.
Multiply that by 100%

 

Scroll down to March 21
Amazon’s COVID-19 blog: daily updates on how we’re responding to the crisis


If what you are ordering is not in the warehouses the pickers can't pick it to ship.
If you are getting a ship date of three weeks out it's not expected to be stocked in the warehouse until then.
Shipping isn't affected, order processing is.

 

You opening up a salon?
The Shear Savage Hair Salon?