{"id":72231,"date":"2019-09-24T11:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72231"},"modified":"2019-09-24T11:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:09:27","slug":"clap-for-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72231","title":{"rendered":"Clap For Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Told my wife we should get The Clapper so she doesn&#8217;t have to get out of bed to shut off the lights when I&#8217;m done reading. She scoffed &#8211; do they even make those anymore?<br>Yes.&nbsp; Amazon.&nbsp; $17.&nbsp; Order by 6:00 on Friday, guaranteed delivery on Sunday.&nbsp; Seriously?&nbsp; How is that possible?&nbsp; <br>Yes, I understand they have a 850,000 square foot warehouse in Shakopee, a building as big as my entire city block. But surely they must prioritize inventory?&nbsp; Amazon updates its list of &#8220;Most Popular Items on Amazon&#8221; hourly, so I can keep up with the Jones.&nbsp; Obviously, they&#8217;d have a huge inventory of in-demand items.<br>But how much demand can there possibly be for The Clapper?&nbsp; And yet they have them in stock locally for two day delivery?&nbsp; Unbelievable.&nbsp; There&#8217;s a reason Amazon is kicking every other retailer&#8217;s a**.&nbsp; It&#8217;s called &#8220;Customer Service.&#8221; <br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, someday, just like Microsoft, Time\/Warner\/AOL, IBM, AOL, General Motors and US Steel, something will come along to knock it off the top of the heap.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Told my wife we should get The Clapper so she doesn&#8217;t have to get out of bed to shut off the lights when I&#8217;m done reading. She scoffed &#8211; do they even make those anymore?Yes.&nbsp; Amazon.&nbsp; $17.&nbsp; Order by 6:00 on Friday, guaranteed delivery on Sunday.&nbsp; Seriously?&nbsp; How is that possible?&nbsp; Yes, I understand they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72249,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72231\/revisions\/72249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}