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Gordy99
Student
- Jan 7, 2022
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I order a decent amount of stuff from Amazon each month. I live in the US. I have some subscribe and save deliveries each month. I also order things when I need them each month at any given time.
I noticed in the last year or so that a lot of my orders are being sourced from Amazon warehouses far away. Logistically it doesn't make sense. I have prime so it's not costing me anything extra but I can't help but notice. I especially notice the sourcing of one particular subscribe and save item that has come from 9 different warehouses all over the country in the last 9 months. Makes no sense.
I called Amazon recently and they have no clue why certain orders are sourced from certain warehouses. The person pointed out that there could be a shortage of that particular item so it has to be sourced from a warehouse far away. Seems plausible. When I look at the buy again section on Amazon it shows most of my items will arrive tomorrow because they are one day items. If they are one day items then I doubt Amazon is going to overnight the item from across the country (I guess I could be wrong). Anyway, my recent subscribe and save order with multiple items was sourced from far away and took three days to arrive (one day past the guaranteed arrival date). All of the items are common and can be manually ordered by me and arrive in one day (most likely from a nearby warehouse).
Does anyone on here work for Amazon and have any input? Amazon seems like an intelligent company especially when it comes to logistics. So why source my items from far away on a somewhat regular basis? It seems to impact my subscribe and save items as opposed to random orders but it does sometimes happen to my random orders.
I noticed in the last year or so that a lot of my orders are being sourced from Amazon warehouses far away. Logistically it doesn't make sense. I have prime so it's not costing me anything extra but I can't help but notice. I especially notice the sourcing of one particular subscribe and save item that has come from 9 different warehouses all over the country in the last 9 months. Makes no sense.
I called Amazon recently and they have no clue why certain orders are sourced from certain warehouses. The person pointed out that there could be a shortage of that particular item so it has to be sourced from a warehouse far away. Seems plausible. When I look at the buy again section on Amazon it shows most of my items will arrive tomorrow because they are one day items. If they are one day items then I doubt Amazon is going to overnight the item from across the country (I guess I could be wrong). Anyway, my recent subscribe and save order with multiple items was sourced from far away and took three days to arrive (one day past the guaranteed arrival date). All of the items are common and can be manually ordered by me and arrive in one day (most likely from a nearby warehouse).
Does anyone on here work for Amazon and have any input? Amazon seems like an intelligent company especially when it comes to logistics. So why source my items from far away on a somewhat regular basis? It seems to impact my subscribe and save items as opposed to random orders but it does sometimes happen to my random orders.