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Does that mean your food delivery depends on the package delivery schedule? "Sorry your pizza is cold but we had to deliver a TV first." For myself, I usually

Does that mean your food delivery depends on the package delivery schedule? "Sorry your pizza is cold but we had to deliver a TV first." For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option.

brianpan 10y ago
This is under the PrimeNow banner- everything is delivered under an hour.
- dx034 10y ago
  Depends on the area. At least in London, PrimeNow delivers under one hour for only parts of the city, the rest is in under 2 hours.
MichaelBurge 10y ago
They should probably prioritize the food, and fill off-time with package deliveries.
dmurray 10y ago
I think Amazon will figure out that hot food needs to be delivered fast and will generally get prioritised over delivering a TV. > For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option. Most people don't care about getting the absolute fastest option, or if they do, they will still compromise for convenience.
- Finnucane 10y ago
  I guess I don't have that much faith in Amazon's ability to prioritize the customer over themselves (i.e., prioritize routing for the least amount of driving, regardless of what is being delivered).
  - softawre 10y ago
    Really? To me, Amazon is one of the most customer-centric companies out there today.
    - mulmen 10y ago
      That's literally the mission statement of the company.
      - ziszis 10y ago
        Overall mission statements have low correlation with behavior. Enron's motto was "Respect, Integrity, Communication and Excellence."
        AndrewUnmuted 10y ago
        No, it's different at Amazon. I worked for Amazon for five years and not a day went by without me overhearing "how does this help our customers?" I've never seen anything like Amazon's company culture since, it's truly dogmatically geared towards customer experience.
    - kosei 10y ago
      Agreed. The company is much more likely to do what's best for the company at the expense of the delivery people or the restaurants, based on their track record.[1] [1] https://www.thestreet.com/story/13248764/1/amazons-got-its-sellers-wrapped-around-its-fingers.html https://www.thestreet.com/story/13248764/1/amazons-got-its-s...
  - mulmen 10y ago
    Have you ever done business with Amazon? You do realize the food delivery isn't being done from a warehouse with pizzas on the shelf right? Your assumption runs contrary to the core idea of Amazon. Customer experience is the absolute most important thing.
  - chrisseaton 10y ago
Dan_Nguyen 10y ago
In my house, we make good use of delivery for one major reason: sports. Sometimes theres no dinner ready and in the hecticness of life, we forget to cook the night before so we get into an unfortunate situation of either going hungry until the game ends or cooking and miss the game. Delivery solves this issue. Take out is definitely faster, but that usually means missing part of whatever game is on. My case obviously isn't universal but given the popularity of sports and how primetime games are only an hour or so after you get home from work, Id think there's a non negligible amount of people with similar situations.
- pbhjpbhj 10y ago
  Or get a DVR and pause the TV whilst you get some food.
  - nitrogen 10y ago
    Some people might not like this since you'll be several minutes behind "live", but an advantage is you can skip any ads and commentary you don't like and catch up to live to see the final play at the same time as everyone else. I don't know if any PVRs still allow watching "live" at 1.25x or 1.5x speed, but if they do (like MythTV did/does) you can also condense a show into the time you have available and still watch the ending live.
- Finnucane 10y ago
  I care about food more than sports. Which is easy, since I don't care about sports.
  - ncallaway 10y ago
    But, interestingly, there are other people in the world that feel differently than you.
    - coldtea 10y ago
      Increasingly less, considering millenial attitudes towards ESPN and the like compared to previous generations at their age.
byoung2 10y ago
For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option. For people with small kids, driving to pick up food can be a huge production, with car seats, diaper bags, strollers, etc. Curbside pickup helps, but delivery is so much easier, and sometimes just as fast.
- monk_e_boy 10y ago
  Yeah, click for a delivery, bath the kids, read to them, put them to bed. Crack open some beer and wait for the food. When I cook it usually takes an hour or so. So getting food delivered frees up that hour.
- blowski 10y ago
  Agreed. There's also people who can't just "drive to the takeaway and back" because they don't have a car, are over the alcohol limit, etc.
pmoriarty 10y ago
I've been really sick recently. So sick I couldn't go out of the house. Delivery was literally a life saver for me.
maruhan2 10y ago
I think it'd be more like alerts being sent to all the drivers asking who is available for pickup.
coldtea 10y ago
>For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option. It's not about being the fastest, though, it's about being more convenient. And even fastest depends on the area. Where I live (near a city centre) I can chose among 300 restaurants from a centralized meta-ordering service, and have their food delivered in 20-40 minutes. It will take me 20 minutes to even decide to get up, find my keys, drive around, order and wait for the food.

brianpan 10y ago

This is under the PrimeNow banner- everything is delivered under an hour.

dx034 10y ago
Depends on the area. At least in London, PrimeNow delivers under one hour for only parts of the city, the rest is in under 2 hours.

MichaelBurge 10y ago

They should probably prioritize the food, and fill off-time with package deliveries.

dmurray 10y ago

I think Amazon will figure out that hot food needs to be delivered fast and will generally get prioritised over delivering a TV. > For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option. Most people don't care about getting the absolute fastest option, or if they do, they will still compromise for convenience.

Finnucane 10y ago
I guess I don't have that much faith in Amazon's ability to prioritize the customer over themselves (i.e., prioritize routing for the least amount of driving, regardless of what is being delivered).
- softawre 10y ago
  Really? To me, Amazon is one of the most customer-centric companies out there today.
  - mulmen 10y ago
    That's literally the mission statement of the company.
    - ziszis 10y ago
      Overall mission statements have low correlation with behavior. Enron's motto was "Respect, Integrity, Communication and Excellence."
      - AndrewUnmuted 10y ago
        No, it's different at Amazon. I worked for Amazon for five years and not a day went by without me overhearing "how does this help our customers?" I've never seen anything like Amazon's company culture since, it's truly dogmatically geared towards customer experience.
  - kosei 10y ago
    Agreed. The company is much more likely to do what's best for the company at the expense of the delivery people or the restaurants, based on their track record.[1] [1] https://www.thestreet.com/story/13248764/1/amazons-got-its-sellers-wrapped-around-its-fingers.html https://www.thestreet.com/story/13248764/1/amazons-got-its-s...
- mulmen 10y ago
  Have you ever done business with Amazon? You do realize the food delivery isn't being done from a warehouse with pizzas on the shelf right? Your assumption runs contrary to the core idea of Amazon. Customer experience is the absolute most important thing.
- chrisseaton 10y ago

Dan_Nguyen 10y ago

In my house, we make good use of delivery for one major reason: sports. Sometimes theres no dinner ready and in the hecticness of life, we forget to cook the night before so we get into an unfortunate situation of either going hungry until the game ends or cooking and miss the game. Delivery solves this issue. Take out is definitely faster, but that usually means missing part of whatever game is on. My case obviously isn't universal but given the popularity of sports and how primetime games are only an hour or so after you get home from work, Id think there's a non negligible amount of people with similar situations.

pbhjpbhj 10y ago
Or get a DVR and pause the TV whilst you get some food.
- nitrogen 10y ago
  Some people might not like this since you'll be several minutes behind "live", but an advantage is you can skip any ads and commentary you don't like and catch up to live to see the final play at the same time as everyone else. I don't know if any PVRs still allow watching "live" at 1.25x or 1.5x speed, but if they do (like MythTV did/does) you can also condense a show into the time you have available and still watch the ending live.
Finnucane 10y ago
I care about food more than sports. Which is easy, since I don't care about sports.
- ncallaway 10y ago
  But, interestingly, there are other people in the world that feel differently than you.
  - coldtea 10y ago
    Increasingly less, considering millenial attitudes towards ESPN and the like compared to previous generations at their age.

byoung2 10y ago

For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option. For people with small kids, driving to pick up food can be a huge production, with car seats, diaper bags, strollers, etc. Curbside pickup helps, but delivery is so much easier, and sometimes just as fast.

monk_e_boy 10y ago
Yeah, click for a delivery, bath the kids, read to them, put them to bed. Crack open some beer and wait for the food. When I cook it usually takes an hour or so. So getting food delivered frees up that hour.
blowski 10y ago
Agreed. There's also people who can't just "drive to the takeaway and back" because they don't have a car, are over the alcohol limit, etc.

pmoriarty 10y ago

I've been really sick recently. So sick I couldn't go out of the house. Delivery was literally a life saver for me.

maruhan2 10y ago

I think it'd be more like alerts being sent to all the drivers asking who is available for pickup.

coldtea 10y ago

>For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option. It's not about being the fastest, though, it's about being more convenient. And even fastest depends on the area. Where I live (near a city centre) I can chose among 300 restaurants from a centralized meta-ordering service, and have their food delivered in 20-40 minutes. It will take me 20 minutes to even decide to get up, find my keys, drive around, order and wait for the food.