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Amazon: the shittiest, most ghastly company on earth
Trader:
--- Quote from: coppice on July 05, 2021, 08:46:22 pm ---People like Walmart will insist that a producer agree to accept all unsold units back, to be redeemed at their original cost. If a producer annoys the buyer, the buyer may buy a large quantity of something, hold them in storage for a while, then send them back to the producer as unsold. Now the producer has a huge pile of stuff, probably branded up with the buyer's name. which they can't sell. Next time around they will be more accommodating to the buyer's needs. The producer can't just walk away, as the buyer represents too large a percentage of the market.
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Another good strategy. Some news about China: they buy a ship of raw material, like soybean (a real example), when the ship arrives in China, they say "I didn't like it, seems GMO, return it", the producer to avoid lost all the costs in transportation accept to give a 70% discount.
Circlotron:
--- Quote from: Trader on July 05, 2021, 08:57:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on July 05, 2021, 08:46:22 pm ---People like Walmart will insist that a producer agree to accept all unsold units back, to be redeemed at their original cost. If a producer annoys the buyer, the buyer may buy a large quantity of something, hold them in storage for a while, then send them back to the producer as unsold. Now the producer has a huge pile of stuff, probably branded up with the buyer's name. which they can't sell. Next time around they will be more accommodating to the buyer's needs. The producer can't just walk away, as the buyer represents too large a percentage of the market.
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Another good strategy. Some news about China: they buy a ship of raw material, like soybean (a real example), when the ship arrives in China, they say "I didn't like it, seems GMO, return it", the producer to avoid lost all the costs in transportation accept to give a 70% discount.
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Would Walmart or Amazon buy a buttload of goods from China, sit on it for a while, then return it? That would be interesting.
coppice:
--- Quote from: Circlotron on July 05, 2021, 10:12:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: Trader on July 05, 2021, 08:57:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on July 05, 2021, 08:46:22 pm ---People like Walmart will insist that a producer agree to accept all unsold units back, to be redeemed at their original cost. If a producer annoys the buyer, the buyer may buy a large quantity of something, hold them in storage for a while, then send them back to the producer as unsold. Now the producer has a huge pile of stuff, probably branded up with the buyer's name. which they can't sell. Next time around they will be more accommodating to the buyer's needs. The producer can't just walk away, as the buyer represents too large a percentage of the market.
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Another good strategy. Some news about China: they buy a ship of raw material, like soybean (a real example), when the ship arrives in China, they say "I didn't like it, seems GMO, return it", the producer to avoid lost all the costs in transportation accept to give a 70% discount.
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Would Walmart or Amazon buy a buttload of goods from China, sit on it for a while, then return it? That would be interesting.
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Manufacturers in China are so eager for business from Walmart, that Walmart can play all sorts of games with them, and do.
tszaboo:
The clear and easy solution is to outsource these operations to small local businesses. They can work with less overhead, and spend more time evaluating a returned or an overstocked item, and do appropriate actions, and get it to people in need or lower income people without online presence.
Supermarkets and others have here a program called "Too good to go" where they group together food, that was going to expire in a short time, and sell it deeply discounted. You often have no idea what you might be getting, and the basket is way to big usually, but it is an effort to reduce waste.
On the other hand I don't think Amazon is the worst offender here. There was this huge article that Zara H&M, and other fast fashion companies, instead of selling stock discounted, simply burns the remaining clothing. Because they want to keep it as a premium brand, and they want to charge way too much money for their clothing. Premium not by quality, by price. Status symbol. So we cannot have people getting it cheap.
Bud:
And if someone gets sick or die from expired food poisoning, who wants to be held accountable?
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