On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 4:45:55 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 5 Oct 2015 12:55:20 -0700 (PDT), Uncle
Monster wrote:

+1

AFAICT, Ace doesn't *make* anything -- even the "Ace-branded" items
that they sell. So, most probably arrange for the firm that *does*
manufacture the items to do the drop shipments... either to their
*stores* or end users. This one probably doesn't want to deal
with onesie-twosie shipments (to homes), just bulk shipments (to
stores).

Yes, I think you guys explained it.

Last week I bought an outlet strip, with 11 receptacles including room
for wall-warts. And the one I wanted was on the Home Depot site, and
it had Ship-to-Store, for free. So I did. I thought it would come from
an HD warehous, or from some other warehouse with a bulk shipment to an
HD shipping location. But instead it came from some warehouse direct
to my local HD via UPS. Individually wrapped.

Apparently this is not true about Amazon, but wrt HD, Walmart, etc, now
that everybody sells everything, I have a feeling they all share one big
warehouse and use the computer to keep track of who sold what. I don't
know how that would work with shoplifting in the warehouse, however.
Who would take the loss for that?

Surprise! Amazon has a number of warehouses "fulfillment centers" across the country. ^_^

I knew that. That's why now everyone has to pay sales tax at the time
of purchase on Amazon.

I meant that based on video on the news of how things work at their
warehouses, they're not sharing space with Walmart or Home Depot, who I
speculate might be sharing space with each other, or using the same
warehouse.

http://www.amazonfulfillmentcareers....ent/locations/

I guess maybe I shoudln't have said everyone.


I reside in Alabamastan and the closest Amazon fulfillment center is in Georgia. I've never been charged sales tax on any Amazon purchase. I suppose it depends on your state having a law that requires sales tax on online purchases from across state lines. There is no such law here in Alabamastan because we eliminated over a century of Democrat control of the state legislature. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Tax Monster