Amazon posted this about moving to LIC NYC https://www.aboutamazon.com/our-company/our-pledge-to-new-york-city
Divorce announcement.
Next day: Here’s the mistress!
So. Predictable.
I feel sorry for the soon-to-be ex-spouses and kids while this all plays out in public.
Actually, let’s not call her a “mistress,” unless there’s a similar term for him. Turns out she was (is) married, with kids. So, they both…
Found this interesting article on the Amazon hunt for their new headquarters- https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/checking-amazon-s-wish-list-stacy-mitchell-podcast-transcript-ncna961391
From the article linked above. Interesting!
Well, actually, they did just spring up bcos they built a better mousetrap given the policy environment that then existed. Jeff Bezos started selling books out of his family garage in that environment. (Just as Michael Dell started selling computers out of his Austin college dorm room, which was his environment.) Anyone could have done it. Anyone could have built that better mousetrap (to sell books or computers, respectively.) But no one else did.
Of course, The Nation’s pov probably subscribes to the Obama line: ‘You didn’t build that.’
The other obvious thing missing from the article is the savings. Sure, Amazon and big box stores hurt mom-and-pops and have driven them out of business. (Bookstores in particular have disappeared.) But the author ignores the other side of the financial ledger. If you or I save a dollar on purchasing a hammer from a Big Box store (vs. the local mom-and-pop hardware store), that is one more dollar we have to save, or spend at the local grocery market, or go to a movie, and the like…
“The other obvious thing missing from the article is the savings. Sure, Amazon and big box stores hurt mom-and-pops and have driven them out of business.”
Not true. She talks about how big pharmacy chains have taken over and how they then increase prices once they have a monopoly on the retail sector as well as the pharmacy benefit manager. Given the state of prescription prices, I don’t see how anyone can deny we have a corrupt system.
I tried to get a script for tetracycline because my stomach can not handle the other antibiotics. This is a generic that has been on the market since I was a child. The price for a 30 day supply??? Over $600 after it was run through the insurance.
The way I see it our structure is tilted in favor of corporations. Maybe because they are perceived to bring jobs and the public is highly dependent on it. Or because they articulate their need better than general public. 2008 bail out is a good example of it. One could view CA wildfire as another example. In the end, it will be taxpayers eating the cost. How pollution? They pollute increasing their profits. When it’s time to clean up, it comes out of taxpayers pocket. I am sure there are numerous ways the system is tilted for corporation.
Actually, she doesn’t, at least with any hard facts, but since cc is not a debate society, I’ll leave it up to others to dig into the ‘research’. (hint: average costs of a script is almost meaningless unless we know what the scripts entail: 7-day supply, 30? 90? a lot of designer cocktails for cancer?)
btw: the cost of tetracycline like any drug is set by the manufacturer. A mom-and-pop Pharm (in North Dakota) has absolutely zero impact on the wholesale costs. They can only play with their own margin, which is no different than a CVS.
My MD friend has argued with the pharm reps, that costs keep,rising. It takes so much time to fight for new meds. One insurance company asked for every other possible med, and his/her rationale for not prescribing that med, even if they were not targeted. older meds still raise their price. We spoke aBout Tetracycline, for example. It is just a sad situation
Have you checked out this website? I found a 90 day supply of 500 mg as cheap as $370.
@bluebayou. Yes. I actually ended up using GoodRx and paid out of pocket because it was cheaper than using the pharmacy benefits and prices that the pharmacy benefit manager had negotiated. At the time I filled it, I paid $80 with the Good Rx discount.
I also found that my family had two other prescriptions that were cheaper to pay for without insurance with the Good Rx discount. So, I paid cash for these as well. This is the problem with the pharmacy benefit manager. They are not negotiating best possible prices for their clients (the employers and employees who use the benefits). They negotiate a price that allows a profit for them as the middle-man and then they pocket large profits when the pharmacy manufacturer drops their prices; they do not pass along the savings in the price drop to the customers.
Amazon is “reconsidering” the Queens office.
I don’t have a link to post but I just heard Amazon includes tips drivers get in their base pay.
With the unemployment rate so low, do cities really think bringing Amazon is that good a deal?
Amazon denies it: https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/08/amazon-flex-tips-base-pay/
I’ve never had the opportunity to tip an Amazon driver, because I’ve never met one. They just throw the packages in my driveway or on my porch and never ring the bell.
It’s pretty scummy for employers to take tips, even if legal. And in many states it is not legal.
I order from Amazon on a regular basis and have never tipped a driver. I doubt that it is expected.
Unemployment rates vary through time. But once a company has thousands in a location, and remains successful, it is slow to move them.
Okay, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. I just heard about the new controversy regarding Bezos and an “extortion letter,” so I googled it and found this link:
“Amazon Stock Falls after Jeff Bezos ‘Exposes Pecker’, Do Investors Need to Worry?”
I thought the world was just going to hell in a handbasket until I found out that the guy in charge over at AMI is named David Pecker.
Good God, what’s next? And also, sometimes you just have to laugh.