> I'd have thought with their robots-and-bins it was notionally identical
Is it really identical? They do have quite a bit of warehouse which means that shipping can be quite longer and more expensive.
Let say I'm a third party and I got 100 shirts in Amazon warehouses in north America and they got 100 too. That means that in average there's 2.6 shirts per warehouse (I found there is 75 warehouses but that can be a wrong number) but we each got 1.3 in averages! If someone buy 2 of mine, most likely they'll have to ship one from somewhere else, while they could just take one of theirs and consider it the same.
At the end of the day though, it doesn't means that I was truthful and my product is actually the same, which can hurt their orders.
Is it really identical? They do have quite a bit of warehouse which means that shipping can be quite longer and more expensive.
Let say I'm a third party and I got 100 shirts in Amazon warehouses in north America and they got 100 too. That means that in average there's 2.6 shirts per warehouse (I found there is 75 warehouses but that can be a wrong number) but we each got 1.3 in averages! If someone buy 2 of mine, most likely they'll have to ship one from somewhere else, while they could just take one of theirs and consider it the same.
At the end of the day though, it doesn't means that I was truthful and my product is actually the same, which can hurt their orders.