Has anyone been following this?
Do you think it will really impact anything?
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This story says 7 facilities. Another I read said 10.
I am sure some deliveries in Skokie, Illinois; New York City; Atlanta; San Francisco; and Southern California will be affected.
We can speculate just how important that will be to Amazon financially, and how much those FCs matter. Each of those areas have multiple FCs, and if Amazon has competent, skilled programmers they could mask most of the impact. Again, whether they have competent skilled programmers and the management to react is an area of speculation.
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Nope. I’m sure Amazon has switches that can just isolate and turn off certain facilities and that dynamically changes everything in terms of what ships from where and when, including customer facing info in terms of availability and time to home by zip.
It’s like nothing even happened I’m sure…
There might be a little trickery needed for orders that were already destined to ship from those locations. Not sure if this was a complete walk out at these particular facilities or if there are “scabs” still working, including the Q4 temps. I’m also pretty sure Amazon uses temp agencies to fill in shortfalls at facilities. “Regulars” that are trained already and can take over. Slower but it will get done.
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My Amazon delivery of 2 cases of Waterloo Peach seltzer were supposed to arrive on Monday. Then Tuesday.Then Wednesday. Now it says they have been delayed in transit.
We may have to switch back to local procurement in Manhattan.
I wonder if deliveries from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods will be delayed–these are usually delivered here via bicycle couriers.
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Two of the cities were Victorville CA and Palmdale CA. They are about 70 to 80 miles apart, over the hills/ mountains from Los Angeles and in the area referred to as the high desert. Each facility would serve about 500,000 population base each and is isolated by the geography of the area. We doubt it would hurt the LA metro but are probably getting lots of media air time in the LA metro which is what the union would be looking for. Plus it wouldn’t be as easy to find replacement workers in the high desert.
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Haven’t been following but as others have said, I doubt it will have much effect.
In an ideal scenario (since I do NOT do FBA) every warehouse would be shut down and people would have to buy from FBM sellers.
My items are pretty basic but it could bring back the 100+ orders for a Monday like I had with COVID. I’m 4 years older than dirt now and I would have to throttle back to fill half that many these days!
Bring it on!!!
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So before baby boomers … we had big bangers?
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Do you think the Teamster’s strike has anything to do with Bezos visit with the Teamsters buddy the President-Elect today?
Interesting coincidence.
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I think the strike was planned before that meeting.
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Are there any picket lines that we can join? I could imagine carrying a sign that says “Sellers support Amazon employees”
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Mod Caution:
Just a reminder to keep the thread non-political as the discussion progresses.
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We should have 1 political thread in a corner for those that want to talk shop. LOL
Just kidding, just kidding… I’ll behave. 
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It’s called r/politics.
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No, I don’t.
Moving on
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I am hearing (locally) these are Amazon Flex drivers making claims.
Hired as independent contractor, paid on 1099, given very specific outline of the job responsibilities and they will not receive benefits.
Not sure what’s fact vs fiction.
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I have heard that also
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On the first page of the WSJ Business and Finance Section today
Thousands of Amazon Workers Strike
Nike Takes Big Risk With Holiday Discounts
FedEx to Spin Off Its Freight Trucking Division
The RealReal Booms Despite Luxury Stall
Not the least depressing news.
Nike has a huge inventory overhang and is hoping to reduce it with markdowns and avoid killing their resellers.
Fedex is the largest LTL trucker in the country and demand is down
RealReal is using AI to authenticate merchandise.
And the Amazon story has been discussed.
Too bad we cannot use this forum to choose some politician to blame this on.
BTW the WSJ Amazon article describes workers who are probably FLEX, but not identifed as such.
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Actually they are following in UPS’s footsteps here. UPS sold off it’s LTL in 2021, now TForce Freight. Mind you it was only UPS freight between 2006-2021. Before that it was Overnight Transportation (1935-2006) That time UPS followed Fedex who purchased Caliber System and American Freightways.
Both cite the reason for doing so as small package delivery is MORE PROFITABLE then LTL, not due to declining demand.
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" Executives cited weak demand in the freight segment and its U.S. parcel business for the revised outlook."
From the article. It also pointed out the UPS spinoff.
Indeed, parcel delivery is growing, but FEDEX continues to lose market share because FEDEX Ground/Home is the bottom of the heap. Sells solely on price. Quality sucks.
LTL carriers continue to file for bankruptcy. It gets political quickly if one explores why, so I will pass.
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