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Amazon has rolled out same day delivery for my area and it is too convenient to pass up. I used to go to Brick and Mortar to get my items faster and I felt good
by thebigspacefuck 7y ago
Amazon has rolled out same day delivery for my area and it is too convenient to pass up. I used to go to Brick and Mortar to get my items faster and I felt good that I was supporting them, but now I will have a hard time saying no.
Walmart has always had a terrible website experience for me. It's difficult to find items that will be in store for pick up and difficult to tell which items are part of the third party marketplace. Going to Walmart in person is equally terrible. There are so many trashy people I just stopped going, even though the prices were lower. It's the worst of both worlds.
I hope that same day delivery becomes something that every b&m retailer can provide regardless of their infrastructure. Maybe this is through Amazon or another third party. I'm wary of giving Amazon too much, but maybe this is the future and everyone else needs to get on board.
- hef19898 7y agoComing up with a next day delivery service on scale for every brick and mortar retailer out there sounds like a good start-up idea. Kind of Uber for Walmart or some such thing!
- alttab 7y agoWho says that once Amazon figures out one day delivery at scale that they won't sell it as a platform? Seems obvious. Uber says that they are the Amazon of Transportation. I'd argue that Amazon is the Amazon of transportation.
- fma 7y agoActually, Amazon just announced they are willing to throw money at you to start a company to do delivery for them. https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/amazon-offers-employees-10k-and-3-months-pay-to-start-their-own-delivery-businesses/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/amazon-offers-employees-10...
- thisismyaccoun7 7y agoAre you actually getting one day deliveries in a day? I always got two day deliveries on time before the switch, but so far the vast majority of my one day shipping items are coming late. It's not a big sample size, but 7/9 were or are currently late.
- thebigspacefuck 7y agoI'm 3/3 for same day. I order in the morning and packages are delivered before I'm home from work. It's free with Prime too. Can't believe it.
- turtlebits 7y agoAgreed on the website experience. While co-mingling is almost always bad - at least buying things via Amazon is a nicer experience. Walmart and others (like Newegg) who have started selling other merchant goods on their website, have made it pretty much clear that I will never buy something not sold by them - exorbitant shipping, terrible pictures and subpar product descriptions for the 3rd party seller items.