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A peak inside one of Amazon's warehouses...
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that's not that big especialy considering the lack of racking :s
EDIT didnt see the second photo. ok, that looks bigger
That place is massive, I worked in a Asda Warehouse for clothing, it was small and the building was a metals work before it became a warehouse and was built 30 years ago but the place could still handle 1 million units of clothes a week, the warehouses going up now are huge and automated to the hilt.
First pic you will have people packing the items into boxes probably small stuff, tvs etc. would be on the ground floor, then you have the area with all the boxes getting sorted into a shipping areas, locations and type of shipping service, the 2nd pic you can see small areas of racking that look like stuff ready to go out but cant see any docking bays, the right of the pic could be docking bays, warehouse are boring to work in but amazing to see working.
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Aye it's above average for sure. But a lot of their items are actually marketplace items.
That's kind of annoying because for their stock, you can get what you want above the limit and get free postage. For marketplace bits there's a little bit more on the side.
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Who cares tbh... its not as though no-one has heard of them before anyway and its just a link to a pic of their warehouse - its not like the OP has said check out XYZ product I found it cheaper over at amazon.co.uk
Tesco is a competitor too but I doubt it really poses much threat to OCUKs business to mention the word 'Tesco' on the forum or point out a press article about them.
Regardless, the rules now state that you can mention a competitor provided they are not a site selling ONLY hardware products etc, and that when linking or discussing Tesco or something, you do not mention or discuss anything OCUK sell aswell (not very much though in a Supermarkets case)!
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Their products are just as competitively priced as anywhere else, plus they give free shipping for £5 (was £15). For me the shipping thing was a clincher especially as I use it to buy the odd single movie.
Their customer service is easy to deal with as well.
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Im guessing that warehouse is mainly used for the bigger items like tvs etc. Chances are if you order a DVD or a game it would come from the jersey warehouse due to a lot of the items being below £17 pounds so no VAT.
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What a waste of space, they should use shelves instead of just stacking boxes
That's rows of boxes on pallets ready to be loaded onto HGVs to be taken to the courier's distribution centres.
There is a ****ing great labyrinth of racking to one side of this, and a rather swanky conveyer thing in some tall frame arrangement on the other side.
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I really do wish they'd just have an entirely separate site for marketplace stuff, it clutters up the site massively and makes every list painfully long to go through.
Though I've not really bought anything from Amazon in a while, maybe they do have some option to not list any none Amazon items somewhere but nothing obvious.
It would just be a much much cleaner, sleaker site that took less time to find things and would be plainly obvious what was in stock and available from amazon if market place items were able to be separated better.
Though I've not really bought anything from Amazon in a while, maybe they do have some option to not list any none Amazon items somewhere but nothing obvious.
It would just be a much much cleaner, sleaker site that took less time to find things and would be plainly obvious what was in stock and available from amazon if market place items were able to be separated better.
Amazing it is.
Has it changed much? I've been using it since the first year they were operating and ordered something only the other week. I'll admit I'd not used it much for the past 12 months before then, but it didn't look that different / wasn't awful to use.
