Because the Metric system is based on water, and the Imperial system is based on hacked together bullshit from a dozen different measuring systems combined.

A gram is a Metric unit, the mass of 1 ml of water. A pound is an Imperial unit loosely based on the ancient Roman libra, the mass of...nothing in particular, that we are aware of.

Same way AARP gets discounts for its members, Insurance companies pay less than self-pay, and Unions get better wages: collective bargaining.

Say GoodRx wants to offer a discount on aspirin. They go to Bayer and say "hey, we represent a million customers. If we can promise that 500,000 of them will buy Bayer aspirin instead of store brand generic, will you give us a discount?" Bayer thinks for a minute and replies "our analytics team has found that only 33% of consumers will spend more for our brand vs generic. If you can guarantee 20% increase, we'll give you 15% off." (Or whatever the real numbers are, I made those percentages up for demonstration purposes.)

GoodRx is essentially selling customer loyalty to pharmaceutical companies. Guaranteed, albeit reduced, returns vs the uncertainty of typical marketing.

BC/BCE, or Before Christ/Before Common Era, is years prior to the start of the Gregorian calendar, 2023 years ago. For XX BC, the bigger the number, the older it is. Ancient Egypt began around 3100 BCE, or 5,123 years ago.

AD/CE, or Anno Domini/Year of Our Lord/Common Era, is years after the Gregorian Calendar. Bigger number, more recent. The Aztec Empire began in the early 1400s, around 600 years ago.

>Wrong on so many levels, but explain how it’s 2x the order processing time. They just send the order electronically to a warehouse they don’t own.

Sure, if the dropshipper is an active enough business that they spend money on automating the process. Otherwise, you're waiting for the dropshipper to confirm order info, then send the order to the wholesaler/manufacturer, then waiting for the actual shipper to process the info and pick the order.

>And are companies that list their products on Amazon but fulfill the order themselves bad companies?

I mean, yeah...kinda. A huge chunk of Amazon is fake listings and dropshippers running low cost storefronts to trick people into buying knockoff products.

>If they are fulfilling by Amazon, isn’t that kind of like drop shipping? 🤦🏻‍♂️

If you're buying through Amazons storefront, then no, it's not.

Dropshipping means the seller has no stock in their possession. You order from them, they turn around and order it from the manufacturer to be shipped to you.

It's good for the dropshipper because they're making a sales markup with minimal overhead costs - no need to staff or rent a warehouse if you have no stock.

It's bad for the customer because now you're waiting twice the time for two different businesses to process your order, paying a retailer markup for no good reason, and you don't even know whether the manufacturer has something in stock and ready to ship when you order from the middleman.

The only time dropshipping is good for the customer is a scenario where the manufacturer does not do direct to consumer sales, only wholesale, the dropshipper has less markup than a regular retailer, and the manufacturer actually does have the product in stock.