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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Don’t know how big of an impact it will have on their overall supply chain or north of the border but Amazon workers at some locations in the US may begin striking on Monday if the company continues to refuse to negotiate a first collective agreement with them.
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Barely. IIRC, something similar happened in recent years just around this busy period (IIRC, it was primarily relating to "poor pandemic policies"). Amazon just dealt with each area on a case by case basis and IIRC, some of the orders seemingly started going through Canada in areas where there was no strike to go around these issues. I think it added up to 3-5 days (days, not business days) on a bunch of larger orders, but for stuff that already had supplies and storage in Canadian warehouses, IIRC it was barely a blip at all.
It's not to say that Amazon wouldn't prefer to come to an agreement with each location because it's more beneficial than abandoning it in the long run. I'm just saying that it likely may not slow things down too much if at all for getting things before Christmas... which honestly speaking, most people are concerned about that more than anything else.
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Originally Posted by calumniate
Also while people can and do return things (sometimes excessively), they've certainly done the math that alot of people don't go through the hassle of returning items. It's similar to subscriptions that get way more expensive down the line.. the calculation is that many people will forget to cancel.
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Yep. Rather than pay several million to have people sitting around dealing with it, they'd rather do the formula to have several million in returns, absorbed instead.
Many don't realize that an extra month for returns isn't necessarily for our convenience. It's for the company's convenience and it honestly costs the company less to offer this extended return policy than be stringent on a 30 day return situation while they're ultra busy during the holidays.