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Higgenbotham wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 12:23 pm

Higgenbotham wrote: Tue May 09, 2023 8:58 pm It's hard to know what the profit margin is of Amazon's core retail business because the company doesn't break it out specifically. This is the best estimate I've been able to find.

The old retail business looks out of place in the current platforms-and-services-focused Amazon because the marketplace is more profitable, carries no inventory risk, and takes fewer employees to manage. “The marketplace generated twice the operating profit margin of the retail business—10 percent versus 5 percent, according to a person familiar with the company’s finances. In annual sales meetings, a team of 15 people overseeing a retail category would see their growth outperformed by one person from the marketplace team, the people say,” wrote Spencer Soper for Bloomberg in 2018.

https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articl ... arketplace

Amazon likely has a significant organized retail crime problem also but they haven't admitted it so far as I know.

Not this:

https://abc7news.com/sf-organized-retai ... /12054678/

But this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuesti ... r_package/

I suspect Amazon saw the fraud in their retail business and gradually moved toward marketplace (third party sellers) partly because they could pin some of the fraud on the third party sellers rather than absorbing it themselves. I've seen third party sellers in the Amazon forums chalk up the fraud as a "cost of doing business" rather than being honest about what it really is. If (probably when) the fraud gets too much for the third party sellers to absorb, marketplace will prove to be a temporary solution for Amazon.

Amazon continues to move away from 1P sales to 3P sellers - sellers will comprise 60% of overall units sold by the end of the year. But the shift is gradual.

In 2016 the number of products sold through the marketplace exceeded those sold by the retail team. Since then, the marketplace’s share has been growing steadily, albeit with fluctuations in some quarters, often caused by sales events or holidays when Amazon’s retail operation typically plays a more significant role.

Over the past eight years - since the marketplace overtook retail sales - sellers have been gaining 150 basis points in market share every year.

https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articl ... arketplace

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In reply to: Seller_qa3jEvxx9StPs's post

updated 4 months ago
I would eat the costs of the returns fee and chalk up for cost of doing business.

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller ... a1a63b9358

There are literally thousands of discussions like this in the Amazon third party seller forums.

There's one more aspect of the potential Amazon theft problem that was brought up here some time ago - the looting of packages during transit.

Higgenbotham wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:20 pm

aeden wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 10:15 pm https://johngaltfla.com/economics/the-apes-are-angry/

This site links to several interesting videos that show the gory detail of the collapse into a new dark age.

https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/statu ... 2271760384
https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/statu ... 7767698435
"John Schreiber @johnschreiber Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-poli ... t-off-work
"We Have Reached Our Limit": NYC Suspends Shelter Rules.

Of course you mocked us. And think us week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlCoc_OismQ

https://www.livius.org/ Contrary to math the amount of them was mathematically insignificant the sipme point is was a mentally diseased society
and also diseases as studt indicates from biological viral pathagens imported also.
Uniparty allows the freak show to invade a intergovernmental meeting.
https://media.patriots.win/post/iDgTJ5bU.png You poor damned fools...
The beach bum troll can eat his fill of insects on His time.

‘Porch pirates’ stole an estimated 260 million packages in the last year. How to prevent theft on your doorstep
PUBLISHED SUN, DEC 18 2022 9:00 AM EST

KEY POINTS

Online sales are nearly 15% of retail sales, a share that’s higher than pre-pandemic, which means more opportunities for “porch pirates” to strike.
The annual amount lost to package theft is an estimated $19.5 billion, according to a report.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/18/porch-p ... -2021.html

That looks to be about 2%.

Higgenbotham wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 9:22 pm

https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/statu ... 2271760384
https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/statu ... 7767698435
"John Schreiber @johnschreiber Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains."

Only the books were left behind.

During the dark age...

...This will be a dangerous time to be alive. One can expect frequent disturbances and vicious squabbles. Today, when neighbours argue about the height of a hedge, they take each other to court. In the dark age, the aggrieved party may burn the hedge down. People may return to the institution of the feud. There will be no sanctions against murderers. For the victim’s family, the only redress and the only deterrence will be killing in retaliation.

The Phoenix Principle and the Coming Dark Age by Marc Widdowson, 2001, p. 309

https://media.patriots.win/post/iDgTJ5bU.png
All part of the reset H. Taxpayers are indeed decieved worshipping uniparty fools.
Almost as bad as the mary poppins moron in press again

Widdowson's quote rings true to me. When I lived in the broken down factory town, most people didn't use the courts or get law enforcement involved. I remember one instance where someone slit the throat of a neighbor's dog and put the dead dog between the screen door and the front door. There was a guy who was acquitted of murder and his sister bragged to me that, "We kill people," in reference to her family.

Yes we have seen this fuedal systems before. Guy was intoxicated after the bar and hit a tree.
The other clan happened on it and took his watch and was seen wearing it. Gold, cash trash flash but almost redeemable we thought then but another self liquidating assets was the final view time later. Early drug runner from florida keys to depot networks we surmised later. It went evil for a very long time in burnings, beating, bitches as we noted to protect what was actually going to hell in a hand basket. That case was not a hit just drunk luck and early warning to hicks in a self centered paradise developing. As we knew the end of the 400 acre ag to the 4000 acre models we already forwarded and why. We knew it was legends in its own minds but we never fought the tape to what we knew.
Back then if your young lady was not home at 9 pm a shotgun and a Father went looking since IT WAS that simple then.
This was the ending of a period that they burned drug dealers homes to protect children.
The State Police said that has to stop and in a few short years the Village was lost to dealers and dead bodys from gangs stinking up the landscape. Burned out cars with Chicago thugs from MetD mechanics crews turf stuff.
Think white boy rick antics with local branch outs unchecked. Think purple gang for those unable to connect events some years earlier.
About three of four years before the peruvian marching powder from the red brigade era started.
Locals had no local, state and feds think barry seal period also. For a decade or more as the cults on all levels wiped the place clean.
We left the zone since it was the arm pit of indifference. Like now just morning toe tag patrols on zones to the ferals and orc clans.
We can texture facts into the sticky wage labor operations as the new york via the south americans contrators moved in to our production units also.

We learn why Farmers and Elders are not fond of swamp landers. The uniparty pond curse is real.
Gandi was correct Christ I like the others are....

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi began his famous experiments with truth, the Tolstoy Farm is a living example of his legacies
that can give the present generation lessons in humanity.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.timetoast.c ... y_Farm.jpg

Nrt has does us well and kemira is on the radar for accumulation. Beta basket shorts are 91tbill roll offs.
Due diligence is your resposibility. The uniparty is lacking resolve to We The People of the Book and Letter.

From: 1973 to 2023 population increase is known just as the cowshit today from the honey wagons think tanks about
demographics for illegals and no border sippy cup morons who should be shit canned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQoB5GeKhV4

https://azcoinnews.com/former-coinbase- ... ading.html
another ruined token life

Example - major tech advances of Dark Age were stirrups (hey, I found a way to not fall off my horse!) and chimneys (hey, I found a way to not have the grand hall filled up with smoke during a banquet!), and that's about it.

Those were two significant advances. Stirrups made travel considerably better, in particular. Why did the Romans not come up with these two? And how much technological advancement was there in the equivalent period before the Dark Age?