If they set up shot in Katy I'll be happy. I'm gonna get a prime membership in a year as well. Yay for Amazon!
I loved working at Wal-Mart, which paid me more than other retailers. OMG, Wal-Mart only pays me $9/hr. I guess you should have had higher goals in life than being a sales associate.
Sounds like another business opportunity to be the delivery company for nothing but small towns, contracted by Amazon. And Obama didn't create jobs!!! Shut up Romney.
Just this week, I've ordered 1) shirts for my boys, 2) perfume for my wife, 3) birthday toys for my boys, and 4) a new garden hose from Amazon. I can't remember the last time I've gone a week without getting SOMETHING from Amazon. It's quickly becoming the place where we buy everything except groceries. Our Prime membership pays for itself many times over every year.
Ditto. I'm always getting little things from Amazon. Prime is awesome, and it's definitely a bargain for how much I use it.
It will be interesting to see how they delivery the groceries into NYC. I wonder if they'll have a staging facility in Manhattan or Brooklyn, etc. Getting into Manhattan can be a nightmare by road. Maybe they have an order cut-off around 10am for same day delivery, and then send a few 18 wheelers to a shuttle stop, then onto their end locations via a big fleet of delivery trucks/vans. Anything else ordered after 10am can be on an overnight 18 wheeler into the city, sent out the next day. That way they avoid rush hour on the bridges getting into the boroughs. Will be incredibly interesting to see how this plays out. Ballsy to take on the biggest city in the country so soon. I would have started with Boston or another dense, but smaller city...
Brick and mortar's two advantages are no shipping costs and your ability to look at the merchandise before buying. If Amazon doesn't screw up and jack up their delivery prices for proximity, this could be worth it.
Y'all remember PeaPod with Randalls? They tried the online grocery shopping but people weren't ready and conditioned yet. I think they're ready now. I'll prolly still go to the grocery store just to get out of the house and do something but damn--game changa.
Walmart can do the same thing, and they already have the brick-and-mortar infrastructure built. It may change retailing, but Walmart isn't going down that easy.
insert far side comic panel where disposable plastic shopping bags are the environmentally friendly option
I'm not sure the math will necessarily work out. While Amazon dominates market share, it doesn't really make much money. To provide same day stuff, there's no real way to do it without increasing fixed expenses (adding warehouses, staff, etc) - and since they have limited margins, that likely means raising prices, at which point the local retailers become more price competitive. I'll be fascinated to see this play out, though. They certainly are continually changing the entire nature of the retail industry and keep proving everyone wrong.
I love Amazon. I buy things from there every month with S&S. In fact, when they were having their big sale on paper products a few weeks back I stocked up. Now I have 300 rolls of toilet paper and 74 rolls of paper towels. Should be fine for a while.
