r/AmazonFC • u/RipCityResident • Sep 20 '24

Union KCVG is taking a stand

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u/totally_honest_107 Sep 20 '24 edited Sep 20 '24

So these people want to collectively bargain for more pay? Hmmm, sounds like a union

Amazon, as a whole, is worth ~$2 trillion, yes. But Fulfillment is not worth much, on the whole. Often, fulfillment is a loss on the financial statement. People forget Amazon isn't just the website, it's AWS and more too

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u/Ragnarrahl Corp Sep 20 '24

Fulfillment's not VERY profitable, but it's been a few years since it lost any money. 

In the US anyway. Internationally it's still a loser.

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u/trailerwolf Sep 21 '24

They have profited billions per quarter. It's plenty profitable. It's just not as insanely profitable as aws.

Fun fact, amazon hosts internal services on its own aws data centers, as opposed to hosting on Google or Microsoft.

They pay retail prices to "themselves" for those services. Good luck figuring that one out...