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Perhaps Amazon should manufacture masks/sanitizer/etc via its house brand, and churn them out by the billion.
by mike_n 7y ago
Perhaps Amazon should manufacture masks/sanitizer/etc via its house brand, and churn them out by the billion.
- djannzjkzxn 7y agoI had the impression that Amazon’s house brand was about getting more margin by cutting out some layers of middlemen, not actually starting their own factories.
- altec3 7y agoFrom what I understand, that's how most house brands work.
- epicureanideal 7y agoBut it’s a great time to recover initial startup cost in starting a sanitizer factory...
- hyperbovine 7y agoThe famously nimble NY Department of Corrections did so in like a week. So I'm guessing the startup costs are not too onerous. https://qz.com/1815496/ny-forces-prisoners-to-make-hand-sanitizer-to-fight-coronavirus/ https://qz.com/1815496/ny-forces-prisoners-to-make-hand-sani...
- tyingq 7y agoThe headline is funny... "Incarcerated people tasked to make hand sanitizer to fight coronavirus are banned from using it themselves" I mean, it's basically 120 proof ethyl alcohol. Of course they aren't allowed to have it. I'm very sympathetic to better prison conditions, but soap should be fine.
- Seenso 7y ago> Perhaps Amazon should manufacture masks/sanitizer/etc via its house brand, and churn them out by the billion. Where would they do that? China is still pretty locked down, and I think they're still struggling to supply domestic needs of those items.
- mNovak 7y agoIn my albeit limited exposure (PCB manufacture), production in some areas seems to have recovered about a week ago.
- azurezyq 7y agoIt's recovering. In my hometown (Shandong province), no more restrictions on manufacturing and transportation since yesterday, aside from body temp checkpoints. It is basically contained in China outside Wuhan already. Wuhan will join in a few weeks.
- Baeocystin 7y agoThe only online stores where I see hand sanitizer or masks in stock & for sale are banggood and ali express. FWIW.
- sigstoat 7y agothey've got a house brand, Solimo, that sells sanitizer. it's sold out like all the rest.