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I'm curious if Amazon will ever attempt something equivalent to a weekly neighborhood-wide prime grocery shipment receiving time. Basically, every Tuesday at 1

by jpao79 8y ago

I'm curious if Amazon will ever attempt something equivalent to a weekly neighborhood-wide prime grocery shipment receiving time. Basically, every Tuesday at 10am-11am, my neighborhood will receive its weekly grocery shipments. If my other non-perishable prime packages happen to be in their holding warehouse by that time, I will get my non-perishable packages delivered to me at that time as well. It would seem by bunching up the shipments it would save gas costs and last mile delivery costs.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago
Along those same lines, I'd totally stick a crappy IoT digital scale in my kitchen so that Walmart, Amazon, the NSA. etc can track my $regularly_purchased_item consumption habits so long as said crappy little digital scale orders me more of whatever that item is before I run out.
- jpao79 8y ago
  Yeah - I'm envisioning a refillable Amazon box for sugar, salts, cereal etc. that re-ordered themselves when low. Maybe using that Dash button technology. Also a nice, paintable residential Amazon locker for home delivery to the front porch would be ideal. I hear Amazon is working with Lennar these days but it seems to be all about Alexa.
mistermann 8y ago
If you put your feet up and brainstorm various possibilities like this, it's pretty exciting imagining what could be possible once certain technologies hit "good enough" levels, and(!) Amazon is granted permissions to really innovate in the infrastructure space in major population centers (say, leasing building rooftops for mini-warehouses, very light rail (<= 1m x 1m packages up to say 10 kg or whatever) connecting buildings to each other and to the ground to facilitate rapid delivery without being constrained by streets and carrying capacity of drones). I hope I live long enough to see some of this happen.
ethiclub 8y ago
>every Tuesday at 10am-11am, my neighborhood will receive its weekly grocery shipments I view this as a constraint of the technology / infra and a temporary workaround. In the same way that scheduled tv programming (structuring your day around prerecorded media) seems absurd, surely so will this ("back in my day, we had to wait until the groceries were ready for us!") I feel Amazon would work around this constraint asks aim directly for on demand, regardless of increased difficulty. They aren't in the business of making the customer work for them. It would be a step bbw ok compared to car boot/trunk initiatives etc.

by jpao79 8y ago

dsfyu404ed 8y ago

Along those same lines, I'd totally stick a crappy IoT digital scale in my kitchen so that Walmart, Amazon, the NSA. etc can track my $regularly_purchased_item consumption habits so long as said crappy little digital scale orders me more of whatever that item is before I run out.

jpao79 8y ago
Yeah - I'm envisioning a refillable Amazon box for sugar, salts, cereal etc. that re-ordered themselves when low. Maybe using that Dash button technology. Also a nice, paintable residential Amazon locker for home delivery to the front porch would be ideal. I hear Amazon is working with Lennar these days but it seems to be all about Alexa.

mistermann 8y ago

If you put your feet up and brainstorm various possibilities like this, it's pretty exciting imagining what could be possible once certain technologies hit "good enough" levels, and(!) Amazon is granted permissions to really innovate in the infrastructure space in major population centers (say, leasing building rooftops for mini-warehouses, very light rail (<= 1m x 1m packages up to say 10 kg or whatever) connecting buildings to each other and to the ground to facilitate rapid delivery without being constrained by streets and carrying capacity of drones). I hope I live long enough to see some of this happen.

ethiclub 8y ago

>every Tuesday at 10am-11am, my neighborhood will receive its weekly grocery shipments I view this as a constraint of the technology / infra and a temporary workaround. In the same way that scheduled tv programming (structuring your day around prerecorded media) seems absurd, surely so will this ("back in my day, we had to wait until the groceries were ready for us!") I feel Amazon would work around this constraint asks aim directly for on demand, regardless of increased difficulty. They aren't in the business of making the customer work for them. It would be a step bbw ok compared to car boot/trunk initiatives etc.