MORE data…
The destination for a single shipment this time was not NC, but instead Homestead Florida, just south of Miami. I doubt Amazon has an FC in the keys, so this was as far south as possible. It seems very clear that they want to distribute my product to the actual FCs that will fulfill sales via trucks or containers that would otherwise be returning empty after delivering to the far-flung FC.
And, if selecting split shipments, 5 of 13 cartons were designated for California again (SBD1 - Bloomington, CA, and LGB8 - Rialto, CA), when, as I point out in the first post in this discussion, there is not that much demand for my product “west of the Rockies”.
It is almost as if they are working to keep as much product as possible AWAY from where it can be quickly shipped to the customers who buy it. There is simply no way that they do not know which states buy the most, as they have 6 years of sales history data.
