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11-27-2017, 07:20 PM #26
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11-27-2017, 07:35 PM #27
for shipping skis/boards at first i was thinking this:
but i think a truly committed snowrider would rather try this:
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11-27-2017, 07:40 PM #28
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11-27-2017, 09:27 PM #29
Jeff Bezos just went to a net worth of $100 Billion this past week, most of it on his Amazon stock holdings. So maybe the company has lost money, he has continued to benefit from the Companies sales and stock price. So I did not state that Amazon was profiting from the sales and making the a profit. They also probably now make more money on their Amazon Web Services- data centers and hosting etc. The articles by Benedict Evans discusses much of what Amazon is trying to do- continue to grow, continue to expand, even if it means a loss by plowing the earnings back into the business, but making sure the stock is performing...
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11-27-2017, 10:43 PM #30Damn shame, throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that
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11-28-2017, 12:20 AM #31
Fuck me slowly oldsteve
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11-28-2017, 11:50 AM #32
I ordered two fleece jackets, same model, just two different colors, from the same place, ordered at the same time.
one of them was just delivered by fedex in a budget rental truck
this was free shipping, not expedited in any way
why they were split is beyond me. both were in stock when ordered. One package should have been sufficient.
and apparently fedex is so busy that they're renting trucks to get the deliveries done
i appreciate the service but i do wonder at the impact: resources, traffic, emissions, health
i could have driven somewhere once to get this done, but i fell victim to a deal that was almost half off and convenience of never leaving home
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11-28-2017, 11:53 AM #33
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11-28-2017, 11:55 AM #34
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11-28-2017, 12:14 PM #35
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11-28-2017, 12:23 PM #36
all the various drop shippers is why this happened. a retailer can be linked to several diff drop shippers and some do ok with aggregating shipping but it's still a work in progress for many
I almost think overall recently the capacity has just been getting filled so maybe even could be argued that things have gotten a little more enviro friendly bc the plane would be taking off for 2 day deliveries regardless of whether it was full or not in the past whereas now they can really optimize and cram them.
I follow the transportation industry at work and EV trucks will help- of course the power comes from somewhere but it'll help emissions and trucking/ freight co's are psyched to start using this technology bc they have such troubles keeping driver/ labor to keep up with demand- labor is a major issue for these co'sskid luxury
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11-28-2017, 12:26 PM #37
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11-28-2017, 12:30 PM #38
I order stuff from Prime on Saturday evenings sometimes and it arrives on Sunday morning via a mail truck like 12 hours later. It is kind of unsettling every time it happens - we live like 4 hours from a major city but only a few minutes from our regional airport. Once it was a bear bag...as if we needed it that urgently. A couple of weeks ago I had a jones to fix our oven on Saturday, ordered the parts from Amazon, they show up at 9 am Sunday. Wife woke up all excited to cook omelettes but her dream of an early breakfast was crushed because I had the stovetop all apart for the rebuild with parts still hot from orbital entry (how the fuck else do they get here so fast?) so she had to wait because I'm not Prime fast at fixing ovens.
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11-28-2017, 12:31 PM #39
Doesn't everyone have a kitchen garbage can that takes plastic grocery bags? I figure that's a better approach than buying special plastic bags just for packaging up garbage...
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11-28-2017, 12:33 PM #40Funky But Chic
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11-28-2017, 12:34 PM #41
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11-28-2017, 12:35 PM #42Funky But Chic
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Use water? Soap? Energy?
I need to live on this planet, cut that out.
And good luck using the bag with the broken jar of raspberry jam or the juice from a leaky pack of chicken in the bottom if you don't wash it.
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11-28-2017, 12:41 PM #43
^dog and then urine
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11-28-2017, 12:43 PM #44Banned
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11-28-2017, 12:45 PM #46Funky But Chic
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It's just that there's no correct answer so I don't want nasty reused bags waved in my face like they're some badge of eco-correctness.
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11-28-2017, 12:46 PM #47
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11-28-2017, 12:48 PM #48Funky But Chic
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And don't get me started on self checkout lines.
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11-28-2017, 12:48 PM #49
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11-28-2017, 12:50 PM #50
we normally bring our own bags, do self-checkout, and the boy does it all. in spanish.
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