Amazon workers walked out on strike at multiple locations across Europe on Friday in protests against the U.S. e-commerce giant's working practices on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
That’d probably be a bigger deal for customer-facing workers at a brick-and-mortar retailer.
In that case, the retailer can’t make sales.
But warehouse workers going on strike won’t stop sales, will just slow deliveries. And Black Friday is really about deals for Christmas – a sort of start of the shopping season for that holiday. It’s well out from the day when Christmas deliveries will need to arrive. So I doubt that most deliveries from Black Friday sales need to be delivered urgently.
I don’t know how likely it is (seems unlikely as it was coordinated until Monday), but if they can maintain strikes through to Christmas, then it would have a major effect. People ordering a week before will not get it in time.
Each year, Amazon hires a bunch of temp workers to deal with Christmas volume increase, at low wages and kept in poor working and living conditions. If the current workers keep striking, they’ll just hire enough temps to fulfill the “Prime” customer’s orders, while everyone else will get them when they get them (“should have paid for Prime…”).
For non-subscribers, Amazon shows a “3-5 day delivery” margin, with a warning that it “may not get delivered by Christmas”… and right next to it, the “1 day delivery” option if you subscribe.
They still under-promise and over-deliver anyway; right now I was expecting an order to arrive next Tuesday, but just got it on a Sunday afternoon.
That’d probably be a bigger deal for customer-facing workers at a brick-and-mortar retailer.
In that case, the retailer can’t make sales.
But warehouse workers going on strike won’t stop sales, will just slow deliveries. And Black Friday is really about deals for Christmas – a sort of start of the shopping season for that holiday. It’s well out from the day when Christmas deliveries will need to arrive. So I doubt that most deliveries from Black Friday sales need to be delivered urgently.
I don’t know how likely it is (seems unlikely as it was coordinated until Monday), but if they can maintain strikes through to Christmas, then it would have a major effect. People ordering a week before will not get it in time.
Each year, Amazon hires a bunch of temp workers to deal with Christmas volume increase, at low wages and kept in poor working and living conditions. If the current workers keep striking, they’ll just hire enough temps to fulfill the “Prime” customer’s orders, while everyone else will get them when they get them (“should have paid for Prime…”).
In this hypothetical, many people will view Amazon as unreliable for future purchases after their deliveries didn’t show up in time.
For non-subscribers, Amazon shows a “3-5 day delivery” margin, with a warning that it “may not get delivered by Christmas”… and right next to it, the “1 day delivery” option if you subscribe.
They still under-promise and over-deliver anyway; right now I was expecting an order to arrive next Tuesday, but just got it on a Sunday afternoon.
I don’t think you’re following the hypothetical being presented.