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I think on amazons scale, the number of people buying a good within a large area would have some near term predictability I would imagine. In fact I would be su
by dman 11y ago
I think on amazons scale, the number of people buying a good within a large area would have some near term predictability I would imagine. In fact I would be surprised if Amazon does not speculatively dispatch goods ahead of time to local warehouses based on projected demand for orders that have not been placed yet.
- jonknee 11y agoThey even have a patent for shipping orders to customers before they are anticipated to purchase it (pre-order delivery!). http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/
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- jacquesm 11y agoWhoever dreamed that up was watching minority report.
- jonknee 11y agoIt made more sense a few years ago when there weren't distro centers near most major population centers and 1hr delivery options. Pre-shipping isn't going to be 1hr by much!
- gtremper 11y agoMaybe that's how they've implemented 1hr shipping?
- jonknee 11y agoNo, they just have urban area distro centers with commonly ordered products that would be desired quickly. Here in Seattle it's an old car dealership that's right near downtown--tons of space for delivery cars and enough for popular SKUs.
- Phlarp 11y agoThey already do this within the warehouses, with robot-pallets re-arranging themselves based on a slew of "big data" metrics, the same techniques can be applied forward to determine what to load on the trucks and how to deploy them.