Article with the latest updates on the Wildberries attacks.

  • BuffaloxOP
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    4 days ago

    Allegedly a whopping 8.5% of the Russian GDP goes through these distributions centers!! (Wildberries and Ozon)
    They are were handling 20 million orders DAILY!! And support an estimated 4 million jobs!

    Despite all this some economists claim it will not seriously impact the Russian economy, because distribution will change to be handled by the vendors instead of through central distribution/logistic centers. And the Wildberry Internet services will continue to handle the IT side of things.

    I don’t think that’s true though, a lot of retailers will not be able to afford to build the distribution capacity themselves after just having lost their entire inventory without compensation.

    Seems to me that in 2 weeks Ukraine has managed to destroy approximately 4% of the Russian economy at least for a while. And many vendors will not be able to continue because this has bankrupted them.

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        3 days ago

        Also Wildberries has borrowed a shit ton of money from banks allegedly they are the biggest borrower in Russia. And they are likely to go bankrupt from this, so that would put more pressure on the banks too. 💰💰💰
        Wildberries has invested a lot on this business model, where they lend to vendors that use Wildberries as their sales platform and logistics. But they have not yet reached the point where they are profitable, so I don’t see how they should be able to survive this. Meaning the money invested are all lost. 💸💸💸

        • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 days ago

          If they bring down the state bank which brings down the economy and that ends the war it’d be fucking fantastic 😁, one can dream eh!

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            3 days ago

            Not unrealistic, but Putin is taking everything out of the Russian economy he can to continue the war, so it might take a while yet. Unless something happens in the meantime I’m guessing a couple of years.

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                2 days ago

                Yes usually a coup is impossible to predict, it can happen any time without us knowing anything beforehand.
                All, we can say is that there are conditions that make a coup more likely to happen.