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<blockquote data-quote="anonymous23456" data-source="post: 5625914" data-attributes="member: 104188"><p>Interesting story out of Europe about this:</p><p></p><p>A friend of mine in Belgium runs a small gas station-cum-convenience store. He was approached by Amazon years ago - I'm talking maybe 6 or 7 years ago, possibly more - to be a drop point for Amazon packages.</p><p></p><p>He told me he tried it for 2 weeks, then gave up and told the Amazon rep in no uncertain terms what he thought of them over the phone.</p><p></p><p>The issue, he said, was that he was paid a miser for a high volume of really heavy packages that literally filled up his convenience store. Like big screen Tvs, furnitures and all kinds of oversize <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> people can buy on Amazon.</p><p></p><p>The truck would come, dump a dozen such boxes, which he then had to drag inside the store and store in the middle of the aisles. Then he had to deal with angry customers who had waited for their delivery for too long, returns of the same size boxes but poorly patched up with tape and barely holding together, etc... for a few cents per package.</p><p></p><p>He said the whole deal was really rotten and utterly ridiculous, and that he had enough <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> going on running a convenience store that's open 24/7 without the Amazon aggravation on top of it.</p><p></p><p>He does act as a drop point for other shippers like DPD, Mondial Relay and such, and apparently he's happy enough with them that he keeps doing it. He had hoped to draw more business with Amazon, but he sure didn't try it for long.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="anonymous23456, post: 5625914, member: 104188"] Interesting story out of Europe about this: A friend of mine in Belgium runs a small gas station-cum-convenience store. He was approached by Amazon years ago - I'm talking maybe 6 or 7 years ago, possibly more - to be a drop point for Amazon packages. He told me he tried it for 2 weeks, then gave up and told the Amazon rep in no uncertain terms what he thought of them over the phone. The issue, he said, was that he was paid a miser for a high volume of really heavy packages that literally filled up his convenience store. Like big screen Tvs, furnitures and all kinds of oversize :censored: people can buy on Amazon. The truck would come, dump a dozen such boxes, which he then had to drag inside the store and store in the middle of the aisles. Then he had to deal with angry customers who had waited for their delivery for too long, returns of the same size boxes but poorly patched up with tape and barely holding together, etc... for a few cents per package. He said the whole deal was really rotten and utterly ridiculous, and that he had enough :censored: going on running a convenience store that's open 24/7 without the Amazon aggravation on top of it. He does act as a drop point for other shippers like DPD, Mondial Relay and such, and apparently he's happy enough with them that he keeps doing it. He had hoped to draw more business with Amazon, but he sure didn't try it for long. [/QUOTE]
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