Another Local Worker Gets Paid by an Online Retail Giant

[dutch508]

Star Member MineralMan (137,955 posts)
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Another Local Worker Gets Paid by an Online Retail Giant

This morning, bright and early, a nice younger guy showed up at my kitchen door, carrying a tool bag. My hair was still wet from my shower. 20 minutes later, he left, after installing the gas range I purchased from Wayfair. He said that he had 12 more appliance installations to do today, after carefully doing his job. This past weekend, as I related in another post, two locally-employed men delivered that gas range in an Enterprise Rental box truck.

Now, I don't know where Wayfair is located. I don't know where GE has its gas ranges manufactured, or where the distribution center for them is located, but all of those pay local workers' wages, too.

Someone gets paid. Someone has a job, somewhere, during the entire process of online retailing and fulfillment.

It's just another way to look at online retailers, large and small. No, they aren't local to your area, but the people who handle, deliver, install, and transport the things you order are local residents, if not where you live, somewhere else in the USA.

There is no reason to feel guilt for ordering merchandise online. People all across the country have jobs getting that merchandise to you. Everyone is local somewhere. People are working whenever you buy anything, wherever you buy it.

but, was he a nice colored boy?

 

[SVPete]

  What's with MM's sudden garrulity?

[DLR Pyro]

but, was he a nice colored boy?

 

had to have been because he wouldn't have been "nice" if he was an evil white boy.

and why is it such a surprise that the big national chains use local talent to do their deliveries or installations?  Does the mineral moron think that the big chains have pools of employees sitting around all over the country waiting for a call to come for services and dispatching them as needed?  Smart businesses know the importance of working with local independents to assist with that "last mile" service.  It's not rocket surgery, it's just a smart  business model.