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ajdlinux 6 hours ago

Assuming it's the US we're talking about, the federal minimum wage is $7.25, which means that if every worker involved is paid at the minimum wage, you incur a cent of labour costs every 4.97 person-seconds. AFAICT, most Amazon workers are paid substantially higher than the federal minimum wage. And that's just labour costs.

While Amazon is efficient, "fractions of a cent" is probably the wrong order of magnitude for even the most efficient order.

hekkle 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That's not even mentioning their additional overheads, like the cost of fuel for their idling van as they drop off your potato.