Posted on 01/18/2014 1:47:01 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
Amazon.com knows you so well it wants to ship your next package before you order it.
The Seattle retailer in December gained a patent for what it calls “anticipatory shipping,” a method to start delivering packages even before customers click “buy.”
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From before He made it big, no doubt.
Just one of Amazon’s warehouses
I would take this with a grain of salt since it is a blog, never the less I can see them setting up some system where you can can have them ship a one time item to you at a certain time in the future, they all ready have a system to send people stuff on a monthly bases like a flat of cat food or two, and you can adjust the amount up or down or cancel the whole thing at anytime, I’m not sure about individual items though but I wouldn’t be surprise if they are already doing that. Being I work down at an Amazon facility you would be amazed at the amount of food stuff they are stocking, you can’t by a can of soup but you can buy a lot of grocery store flats of like 12 to 16 cans at a time, they are slowly building up their stock. Something like this might not be a bad idea if your going camping at a state park or something like that. Some times it would cost you more money in gas to shop at the nearest grocery store then to have it shipped to your camp site etc. And something like this might eliminate someone having to rent a big vehicle to carry all their supplies like food with them, because all they have is a small car. It just something to think about. They are really shooting at competing with Walmart’s Sam stores, and stores like that where you can buy a lot of stuff in bulk. If the price of gas goes up, the price of prime membership will look better every day for those in the know, already if you buy like a dozen items from them over a year it is worth it. The price of prime membership is very good compared to gas one might spend running around trying to find something at a local store when they can sit at home and order it off of Amazon.
That’s...very Zen.
I have had about 200 items in my Amazon cart for about 3 years now. When it goes on sale, I click buy.
Amazon wanted to tax me on the last purchase, I found someone else to purchase my TV from.
Amazon is going to be losing a lot of business on interstate commerce.
I buy most of what I need that isn’t perishable from Amazon. I have the Prime Membership at $79/year, and with everything I buy all year long, the free shipping covers that cost by at least double.
Shipping is fast, returns aren’t a problem really and I’ve never had a billing problem with them. It saves a lot of gas money for me, especially on things like repair parts for appliances where I’d have to drive 60 miles to Atlanta to a parts store that has them.
Yup.
Amazon is like Santa Claus. The see you when you’re sleeping. They know if you’re awake. They know if you’ve been bad or good. So be good for goodness sake.
Amazon is like Santa Claus. They see you when you’re sleeping. They know if you’re awake. They know if you’ve been bad or good. So be good for goodness sake.
I love Amazon Prime. You can’t beat it. It’s like Sam’s, Netflix, and Barnes & Noble all rolled into one.
I’ve always understood that if some company ships you something that you didn’t order, you are under no obligation to pay for it.
Their distribution system is amazing, and it just keeps growing. A couple of years ago, most of my stuff would come from Seattle or somewhere on the east coast, now it usually comes from a fulfillment facility that’s about a hundred miles away. Through a combination of Fedex driving the order to the local post office, and my letter carrier bringing it, I often get the order in less than 24 hours.
What they’re proposing to do is keep track of your usual orders, make sure they’re at the closest facility, and preposition them if they’re not. With the new “locker” program, you’ll be able to order stuff at bed time, and swing by the local convenience store to pick it up the next morning. Bezos is one clever guy.
As have I.
Trust me, it’s not leaving their hands until you buy it. With the new locker system, though, they could have it waiting at your local convenience store, then e-mail you the access code once you place the order.
And that’s all one step closer to having a drone fleet at centralized “locker” locations that do the last-mile delivery, so it’s not even a matter of next morning at the 7-11, but next morning next to the morning paper.
They are building a huge fulfillment center near us in Coppell, TX. It is one of the biggest buildings I’ve ever seen.
> I’d imagine that there would be a
cottage industry devoted to finding ways to game
the system.
Bank on it.
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