amazon – The Musings of the Big Red Car

The Amazon Prime Nibble

Big Red Car — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:42:32 +0000

Today I received a friendly email from my friends at Amazon Prime — currently $139/year — telling me the ad free nature of Amazon Prime Video was going to change. There will now be “limited” ads on its movie and TV offerings, unless I want to pay — drumroll please — an additional $2.99/month = […]

This post first appeared at The Musings of the Big Red Car
Big Red Car The Amazon Prime Nibble The Musings of the Big Red Car %%BLODDESCLINK%%

FBI — Tied Up In Knots Over A Noose

Big Red Car — Thu, 27 May 2021 21:04:46 +0000

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into the appearance of eight nooses at an Amazon work site in Windsor, Connecticut. Key the threatening background music, please. The noose is, of course, interpreted as a symbol of racial hatred harkening back to the horrific lynching of black persons with a knotted noose. Whoa, […]

This post first appeared at The Musings of the Big Red Car
Big Red Car FBI — Tied Up In Knots Over A Noose The Musings of the Big Red Car %%BLODDESCLINK%%

Amazon Goose Meets Liberal Gander — Union Style

Big Red Car — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 01:18:30 +0000

Amazon has a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama that employs 6,000 workers. The workers have petitioned for a vote to establish a union (a unit of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union), something that Amazon does not want to happen. Amazon last had a union vote in 2014 in which there were some alleged “irregularities.” […]

This post first appeared at The Musings of the Big Red Car
Big Red Car Amazon Goose Meets Liberal Gander — Union Style The Musings of the Big Red Car %%BLODDESCLINK%%

Jeff Bezos — The GOOD SON

Big Red Car — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:24:46 +0000

You may have heard of this fellow, Jeffrey Preston Bezos — started a company called Amazon which has had a nice run. His ownership in Amazon has made him the richest person in American and the world — some $200,000,000,000 from Amazon alone. This is after coughing up 25% of his shares to part company […]

This post first appeared at The Musings of the Big Red Car
Big Red Car Jeff Bezos — The GOOD SON The Musings of the Big Red Car %%BLODDESCLINK%%

Walmart v Amazon Subscriptions

Big Red Car — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:57:22 +0000

Let me start with the bottom line, Walmart is launching its “Walmart +” subscription service for $98/year that will deliver the following benefits: 1. Unlimited free “same day” grocery and merchandise delivery 2. Limited free Express 2-hour delivery 3. Discounts on gas at its Walmart gas stations (usually already the cheapest gas in town, always […]

This post first appeared at The Musings of the Big Red Car
Big Red Car Walmart v Amazon Subscriptions The Musings of the Big Red Car %%BLODDESCLINK%%

The Amazon Third Party Data Shuffle

Big Red Car — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 18:18:41 +0000

Amazon, the Bully of the Boardwalk when it comes to eCommerce, sells things on its powerful website for third parties. They also sell their own private label products. As you can imagine, there is a lot of data captured thereby. Take a second and imagine what data such an assignment might generate — popularity of […]

This post first appeared at The Musings of the Big Red Car
Big Red Car The Amazon Third Party Data Shuffle The Musings of the Big Red Car %%BLODDESCLINK%%

Amazon Hiring

Big Red Car — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:41:58 +0000

Big Red Car here on a rainy day along the Houston coast. They are saying Houston might get TWO FEET of rain. Wow! So, Amazon has been holding a hiring extravaganza. They held a multi-city job fair on 17 September 2019 in Arlington, Boston, Nashville, Dallas, Chicago, and Seattle. This is where the job fair […]

This post first appeared at The Musings of the Big Red Car
Big Red Car Amazon Hiring The Musings of the Big Red Car %%BLODDESCLINK%%

Corporate Welfare – Incentives

Big Red Car — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:09:50 +0000

Corporate welfare, Big Red Car? Huh? Big Red Car here on a sunny, cold Texas day. Ahhh, winter is here at 41F at dawn, but 65F now. Winter is hard in the ATX, y’all. So, the Interwebs are all aghast at the gargantuan incentives provided to Amazon (richest guy in the world, Jeff Bezos, at […]

This post first appeared at The Musings of the Big Red Car
Big Red Car Corporate Welfare – Incentives The Musings of the Big Red Car %%BLODDESCLINK%%

Blue Apron — Stormy Waters Ahead

Big Red Car — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 17:50:56 +0000

Big Red Car here with his Blue Apron on. Haha, that’s a joke y’all, just like everything else about Blue Apron. If you don’t know about Blue Apron, a meal kit delivery company which just went public, let the Big Red Car ‘splain it to y’all. Blue Apron went public on the NYSE recently at […]

This post first appeared at The Musings of the Big Red Car
Big Red Car Blue Apron — Stormy Waters Ahead The Musings of the Big Red Car %%BLODDESCLINK%%

Retail Tsunami v Amazon

Big Red Car — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:05:01 +0000

Retail, Big Red Car? You going shopping? No, the Big Red Car doesn’t shop, y’all. The Big Red Car does Amazon and the BRC is part of the problem. The problem being the wholesale remaking of the face of retail in the United States, particularly brick & mortar retail. Let me ‘splain it to y’all. […]

This post first appeared at The Musings of the Big Red Car
Big Red Car Retail Tsunami v Amazon The Musings of the Big Red Car %%BLODDESCLINK%%