It might be easier to move some business functions than others. I don’t know what business functions that they intended for the new secondary headquarters. My understanding is that some poorer areas also have less Internet infrastructure already in place. They may also have less business services or services in which employees potential employees would have interest.
They do give back, and their employees pay loads of taxes.
The video above kind of talked about that. I hadn’t realized that their profit margins are so low! But when you move enough products and services a small margin can still be a lot of money. Per the video above their retail business is subsidized by their web services business. Traditional retail and grocery stores don’t usually have another unrelated business to finance their operations.
I looked at your list from the link, other than 4 different locations in CA not one location set up shop in at least one of the 10 poorest States within our country.
who are these poorest states?
I don’t know if that would be enough. Amazon is making a substantial amount of money on IT services that contributes to them being able to keep prices on their consumer products lower and finance them them expanding their business (getting into groceries, performing a lot of their own logistics, integration of their consumer digital services into various goods, so on). They are a lot more than an online catalog of products to buy now.
That reminds me, Amazon has purchased the grounds of a few dead shopping malls.
LOL, Mississippi doesn’t have the tech talent for staffing another Amazon HQ operation.
People used to remind me that all the time. When I was in high school I had a job working at a local Sears. When I worked in the hardware department I remember older men coming in with a drill or a saw that they had owned for 10 to 20 years that had stopped working and wanted a free replacement. I had to tell them that it was out of warranty and that it could not be exchanged. That usually lead being told how far Sears had fallen from where they used to be. I worked in the computer department too. I also worked in the computer department. But as that was a commission position and they didn’t keep many computers in stock it wasn’t profitable and lead to me exiting.
Amazon was incorporated in 1994. It wasn’t until 1998 that they expanded from books and started to sell music and other media. In 2002 they got into technology services.
They also purchase products in bulk and brand them. And like many other retailers they purchase branded goods from manufacturers. There are also Amazon partners that sell their own goods through Amazon. I bought a telescope on Amazon and the order was fulfilled by B&H Photo in NYC.
Amazon sells advertisements. Many of those advertisements show up on other websites.
I find that I use my local retailers less because some of the things I want to buy they don’t keep in stock in the store. The display items are sometimes fake or behind locked cases where they can’t be touched. I can order the items through the store and get them in a few days. If I order through Amazon I can get them in one to two days. If I can’t see the product before I buy anyway I just end up ordering online.