• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Random.

    I can get 8 items at one time… Two will be in a box, four will be in paper bags, and two will be in plastic bags.

    For such an automated company, you’d think that everything would just be in a single box.

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        8 months ago

        But each item from a different warehouse?

        I used to get everything in single boxes before. Now it’s always multiple packages.

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      8 months ago

      This is speculation, but it’s probably a lot faster and cheaper to just pack and ship instead of collecting first, and then packing and shipping.

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        8 months ago

        I can’t see it being cheaper, since those packages aren’t free. Faster? Not sure about that, either. Amazon automates a lot of their process, and the separate items would still need to gather in one place to be shipped together anyway. Packing a half dozen separate items is surely less efficient than packing everything in one box.

        Again, this wasn’t a problem a few years ago, when everything would come in a single box. The greenwashing by Amazon about their plastic bags is 10 steps backwards, IMO.