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This is crazy. My nearest store is 15 minutes away, and the nearest Walmart is an hour away. Prime would be a bargain at $500 a year for me.

forgot-my-pw 9y ago
Sorry, but Prime will not be quick too in remote areas like yours.
- eropple 9y ago
  Prime's two-day delivery to the Vermont/Canada border is just fine.
  - Spooky23 9y ago
    You’re really close to Burlington, you’re not remote from the shipping perspective. Many places in NY in the middle of nowhere add 1-2 days delivery because UPS routes are super long or they need to use USPS and a rural carrier humping packages in the back of his Subaru.
    - eropple 9y ago
      I dunno--I get two-day shipping when I visit my grandparents in Houlton, ME, too. ;) And I don't think they're shipping in from Canada for that. The coverage is pretty good and very wide.
- colechristensen 9y ago
  Yeah all of the delivery providers have no problems doing overnight (much less two days) pretty much anywhere in the contiguous US.
- bowlich 9y ago
  I've lived in some really remote parts of the west and the worst my prime shipments have ever been is a day late. Count that against the 40 mile drive into town that I only make once every other week -- even if they took a week to get to me it would be sooner then if I went to the store (plus all the gas savings for myself).
- kelnos 9y ago
  Remote? I live in SF; we don't have a Walmart, and our only large retailer is Target, which is a 10 min drive (plus the pain of finding parking) or a 25 min walk (which limits what I can carry back with me). Even when I lived in a suburb (still Bay Area), retailers would be a 10-15 min drive minimum.
dingaling 9y ago
> My nearest store is 15 minutes away, and the nearest Walmart is an hour away. And I'll bet your nearest Amazon Fulfilment Center is a lot farther away than those. But hardly relevant, either, when you can go to walmart.com or target.com and order the same items, often also for free two-day delivery. It is fascinating in these comments to see the reductio ad absurdum that Prime membership seems to invoke. People arguing that if they didn't have Prime they'd have to walk to a store. Amazon wasn't the first online e-tailer, it isn't the only one and surprisingly it isn't the biggest in many countries.

forgot-my-pw 9y ago

Sorry, but Prime will not be quick too in remote areas like yours.

eropple 9y ago
Prime's two-day delivery to the Vermont/Canada border is just fine.
- Spooky23 9y ago
  You’re really close to Burlington, you’re not remote from the shipping perspective. Many places in NY in the middle of nowhere add 1-2 days delivery because UPS routes are super long or they need to use USPS and a rural carrier humping packages in the back of his Subaru.
  - eropple 9y ago
    I dunno--I get two-day shipping when I visit my grandparents in Houlton, ME, too. ;) And I don't think they're shipping in from Canada for that. The coverage is pretty good and very wide.
colechristensen 9y ago
Yeah all of the delivery providers have no problems doing overnight (much less two days) pretty much anywhere in the contiguous US.
bowlich 9y ago
I've lived in some really remote parts of the west and the worst my prime shipments have ever been is a day late. Count that against the 40 mile drive into town that I only make once every other week -- even if they took a week to get to me it would be sooner then if I went to the store (plus all the gas savings for myself).
kelnos 9y ago
Remote? I live in SF; we don't have a Walmart, and our only large retailer is Target, which is a 10 min drive (plus the pain of finding parking) or a 25 min walk (which limits what I can carry back with me). Even when I lived in a suburb (still Bay Area), retailers would be a 10-15 min drive minimum.

dingaling 9y ago

> My nearest store is 15 minutes away, and the nearest Walmart is an hour away. And I'll bet your nearest Amazon Fulfilment Center is a lot farther away than those. But hardly relevant, either, when you can go to walmart.com or target.com and order the same items, often also for free two-day delivery. It is fascinating in these comments to see the reductio ad absurdum that Prime membership seems to invoke. People arguing that if they didn't have Prime they'd have to walk to a store. Amazon wasn't the first online e-tailer, it isn't the only one and surprisingly it isn't the biggest in many countries.