[quote=barnaby33]Prices on Prime items are higher, to cover the shipping cost. Amazon isn’t stupid. I use prime extensively, but it’s a chimera, when considering price.
Since Amazon already has distribution centers here was the OP being glib when they linked a new center to tax collection?
Ninaprincess, they are still cheaper in most cases than anyone else. Even with tax.
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barnaby, Amazon is obviously building its distribution centers in CA on the cheapest land they can get … which makes sense (to hold their prices down). Any “beleaguered area” in the “armpit” of CA with 50%++ of distressed properties would be thrilled to have a new employer move in, offering the locals 750-1000 new jobs.
As it should be. If that’s the deal they made with Jerry, then so be it. Imagine how much sales tax the (small) state of TN collects (from their own residents and a poss % of other states) with all those online distribution centers located within minutes from the one of the country’s main UPS shipping hubs!
