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Amazon Prime delivery delays are now as long as a month
- esaym 7y agoYep noticed this today. Too depressed to work on my personal programming projects. Taking up a cheap musical instrument (yamaha recorder anyone? lol) sounded like a good way to pass time. Amazon says my prime order will be ready on April 21st :/
- cnasc 7y agoSounds like you’re a prime candidate for an online vocal training course
- marcofatica 7y agoPeople need essentials, the reason things are so delayed is people like you trying to order a recorder when people need toilet paper and groceries
- setr 7y agoIf that were the case, and amazon was sufficiently interested, they'd do the trivial/intelligent thing and simply prioritize essentials for shipping over other things. For example, by disabling 1-2 day shipping for anything not considered an essential. Rather than blaming people for using amazon for precisely its intended usecase, ,despite individuals having next to zero information on what was actually up with amazon's backend causing the slowdown (are there simply no essentials left to deliver, and the backlog is due to other issues..? I dunno, I'm not amazon, and probably you aren't either.) Hell, it might already be the case.. which would mean you're attacking people for buying normal goods for no particular reason.
- whack 7y ago> If that were the case, and amazon was sufficiently interested, they'd do the trivial/intelligent thing and simply prioritize essentials for shipping over other things This is exactly what Amazon is doing, as mentioned in the linked article. Hence why the gp's musical instrument is taking a month to arrive.
- setr 7y agoYou're right, missed the non-essential sentence So the answer is then.. attacking for no particular reason
- jjeaff 7y agoWell that can't be true since Amazon seems to not have any toilet paper in stock. And they seem to have turned off fresh groceries, at least in my area.
- bane 7y agoRecorders can be transcendent instruments in the right composer's hands: https://youtu.be/G6hQvvhqfJo https://youtu.be/G6hQvvhqfJo
- travbrack 7y agoAnd performer. Also those aren't soprano recorders so they're less squeaky.
- jgalentine007 7y agoYes, quite right! https://youtu.be/hpjV962DLWs https://youtu.be/hpjV962DLWs
- esaym 7y agoThere's this Sam Feld/Heartfeldt soundcloud playlist that I've been listening to for years and that song has been on there several. Never knew it was a recorder!
- swiley 7y agoRecorders are underrated (although, the ukulele is IMO the most underrated instrument, probably because they’re easy.) I have a slightly more expensive Yamaha soprano recorder that I absolutely love. My living room is all hardwood and I keep most furniture and anything soft out of it just so I can enjoy the sound.
- frequentnapper 7y ago>the ukulele is IMO the most underrated instrument, probably because they’re easy Not for someone like me with no musical background :)
- isoskeles 7y agoUkuleles have a bad reputation because many of them are collecting dust in someone's studio apartment. It's the quintessential "I want to learn an instrument but not really" purchase.
- reaktion 7y agoI've played recorder (soprano) in a baroque ensemble - the instrument is beautiful in the right context. For playing alone, I enjoy my wood tenor recorder.
- khazhoux 7y ago> Too depressed to work on my personal programming projects I'm gonna randomly hijack this comment to talk about this growing depression I fear will hit a lot of people. It's been very frustrating at work, approaching end of quarter with all the usual internal quarterly milestones, and no one in leadership acknowledges this intense mental stress that everyone is under. Everyone is still expecting that good ol' 20% improvement we promised three months ago, despite the entire engineering team counting down their remaining rolls of toilet paper, and watching the dumpster fire every day from the White House briefings, and the stock market imploding. Meanwhile we know that at the tail end of this, many of the local business we rely on and have supported over the years, may be out of business. But at work, the same meetings are on calendar. The same constant drumbeat, where we pretend the only thing that's changed is our status is "WFH". Large meetings clearly don't work over videoconference and without a whiteboard. At my place we even have a two-day "offsite" where the whole team will literally spend the day sitting in one position at their desk, facing the camera. I fear many workers in tech will crack from trying to carry on as if nothing was wrong. That said, I do acknowledge the privileged position of this first-world problem.
- paulgb 7y ago> I'm gonna randomly hijack this comment I'm glad you did. Well said.
- bob33212 7y agoIn some cases management is afraid and thinks that they need to appear to be positive and unwavering. I would advise to play along and not to feel like you need to actually be productive at this time
- danaris 7y agoTo the extent possible, I would even recommend being open with them about how counterproductive you feel this is.
- _asummers 7y agoThis is my opinion too, and I see the value. Having at least one part of your life that seems "steady" helps when the rest is upended. It can come across callous if that is not communicated though.
- billfruit 7y agoI feel that I should recommend the melodica than the recorder, you can play it like the piano rather than learning the very delicate fingering required for the recorder.
- nightfly 7y agoUnless you like confusing fingerings, and/or super limited range I'd avoid the recorder. A tin whistle is a _much_ easier to learn to play instrument, that exchanges chromatic playing (the ability to play in multiple keys), for a much more accessible second octave of range. Go for a brass or nickle round tube one (Generation, Feadog, or Waltons are decent brands).
- lioeters 7y agoWhile we're proposing alternatives to the recorder, I'd add the harmonica as an accessible instrument. It depends on the kind of music one wants to play, but the harmonica is easy enough to start playing for a child, and the range of expressivity has room for expertise to develop (chromatic harmonicas are difficult but can produce sweet and exotic scales..).
- rv-de 7y agoebay, craigslist, ... ?
- downerending 7y agoAs a rather poor kid, it was months before I got access to the musical instrument I wanted to learn. In the meantime, I drove some appropriate nails into a piece of wood and practiced my fingerings. Worked pretty well.
- toasterlovin 7y agoAmazon Seller of non-essentials here. Fulfillment out of Amazon’s warehouses has been slow the last week or so (on the order of 2-3 days delayed vs. normal). Sellers started noticing last night / this morning that Prime items which are fulfilled by Amazon are showing delivery date of April 21st. We don’t know if that is a real date yet, or if Amazon is just setting expectations super low. Based on the fact that a wide variety of items are all showing that as the Prime delivery date and that shipping has not been that delayed up til now, I think there’s reason to think that things will actually be delivered faster than that. Plus, I know at least one seller of non-essential products who is not seeing that delivery date for their products. So who knows. The April 21st delivery date is crushing our sales, though.
- obrajesse 7y agoMultiple items I’ve ordered this weekend with April 21 or later delivery dates got their dates moved up by 3+ weeks after order.
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- artificial 7y agoI can confirm this as well.
- toasterlovin 7y agoThat’s good to know, thanks for the anecdata.
- GarrisonPrime 7y agoI wonder if they're giving an artificially long date in an attempt to discourage certain orders so as to relieve the current crush.
- grumple 7y agoI can only imagine how such behavior would go at a normal tech company: "Hey boss, we're getting a ton of orders in. Think we should discourage people from ordering junk so we can prioritize the important stuff?" "Hell no, keep the orders coming in as fast as possible." So props to Amazon for doing something in the best interest of their customers and their reputation.
- breput 7y agoAnd exactly which essentials are being delivered instead? They are prioritizing the hand sanitizer that is always out of stock? How about Clorox wipes? Fine, how about making your own...oh...isopropyl is sold out too. What exactly is being shipping now?
- reaperducer 7y agoMy wife ordered a cat tree yesterday. It's supposed to arrive Tuesday. IMO, Amazon shouldn't have sold it to her.
- sneak 7y agoMaybe she shouldn’t have bought it? When two parties consent to a transaction, the responsibility for that transaction occurring rests equally on both parties, as either one could have vetoed it.
- BoorishBears 7y agoI don’t know why you’re being downvoted. Should Amazon have an intern filtering through every listing to decide what makes it essential or not, then block non-essential? A comment above made it clear, they went by category, which is a very reasonable approach. It treats pet supplies as important (which makes sense, my dog's food comes from Amazon for example). It’s not unreasonable that people also show some discretion when Amazon has made it very public that they’re dealing with an unprecedented situation. I needed a new phone case and a few random odds and ends recently but hit save for later because I’m not going to die if I wait a few weeks to order these things.
- sokoloff 7y agoUnless it’s on the website in the cart, I don’t expect Joe Random consumer to be paying attention to the likely impact on Amazon distribution from the pandemic. If they want to curtail it, put it on the site in the checkout flow. Anything less, and my take is they’d rather take the order. That they’re offering $3 for “no rush” now and just pushing sone items out to a promise date 30 days away tells me they want the order if you want to give it to them.
- jonathanoliver 7y agoA few years back Amazon.com got hit with a pretty massive DDoS attack. Because of their reliance upon AWS and the massive resources available through their cloud, they simply out-scaled the attack. Now Amazon is getting he with a new kind of DDoS that requires them to scale--this time from legit customers wanting their orders delivered in a reasonable amount of time. Pretty crazy to watch all the supply chain disruption happening at the moment.
- onion2k 7y agoA month is a reasonable amount of time for non-essentials during a global crisis.
- _ph_ 7y agoThat very much depends on what one can consider an essential item. Here in Germany, grocery and drug stores as well as pharmacies are still open. So I can go shopping for the immediate essential items. But all other stores are closed, so online shopping is the only way to these products. That starts with shoes and any kind of clothing. Which is pretty essential in my eyes too. Also, there are a lot of things which might not be considered "essential" but quite important. Working in home office, I might need cables, a headset, a power supply. Also, if you consider that people are restricted to their homes for weeks to come, even entertainment/toys can quickly be considered essential. So Amazon probably does its best to use its available resources in storage and delivery, the categorization of items as essential might not be as clear-cut as it might sound. And of course, toilet paper is out of stock on Amazon as at the local stores :p
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- blisterpeanuts 7y agoI ordered a nonessential item (a set of heat shields for a gas grill) from Amazon Prime today and they offered a $3 digital coupon for the slower delivery option. Normally it's $1. I guess they're trying to encourage slower delivery; makes sense.
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- natch 7y agoSince it hasn't been mentioned let's just put it on the table here that Amazon Prime, a service with a fairly steep annual fee, supposedly came with a promise of two-day shipping, in exchange for that fee. Now if there was some fine print I didn't read, shame on me, but has Amazon explicitly addressed this? I do understand that the physical items themselves are in short supply and cannot be instantly produced by any kind of magic. (Although as an aside, and it's really not my main point, but I do think Amazon has the buying power to incentivize many suppliers to move mountains). Just like the physical items, the money to pay the fee for Prime memberships can also correspondingly go into short supply as well, and individual members may have good reasons to stop paying if they aren't getting what they paid for. Certainly facts on the ground have changed the deal. Maybe we Prime members will just be in the front of the line for frequently hoarded items... sigh. Will be interesting to see how Prime fares through this.
- djannzjkzxn 7y agoAmazon is pretty liberal about giving credits if you complain about Prime service. Not sure if that policy is still in place at this time.
- foepys 7y agoThe last time a package was delayed, I couldn't even find the button to complain. I looked for a few minutes and then just canceled Prime instead. There was about a 50% success rate and since their other services are garbage, too, I don't see why paying a yearly fee is worth it. The Amazon Prime Video apps have a 100-300ms audio delay on all my platforms (Android, TV, Chromecast). Unacceptable.
- kfrzcode 7y agoWell it's probably in their interest to make the pathway to complaining difficult. Their return and refund policies are very generous, in my experience. With little to no effort I was able to get full refund on three separate missing/stolen packages no questions asked, in the past 6 months. All I did to find this: - web-search the term "Amazon chat support" - apply intuition
- darkerside 7y agoSo as a Prime subscriber, I'm curious if they will be offering prorated refunds for this time when most things are not under 2 day shipping policies. Spoiler alert, they won't.
- froindt 7y agoI've read of people routinely asking Amazon for compensation when their packages arrive in over 2 days. Some ordered regularly enough the $5 credit they hand out like candy more than paid for the entire membership.
- Lammy 7y agoThey used to give out a month of Prime to extend your subscription, but two-ish years ago they switched to offering $5 Amazon purchase credit (after a short few weeks of trying to offer nothing).
- Dylan16807 7y agoHalf a month is still a good thing to get, and purchase credit is easier to spend than having infinite months of Prime.
- ngold 7y ago1918 flu pandemic the best we had was a sears catalouge.
- acchow 7y agoCouriers simply lie and say they attempted delivery (which they didn’t) but you weren’t available. Then the next day they just leave it at your door. So does that count as missing the 2 day deadline?
- toasterlovin 7y agoAs a seller we see lots of refunds go to customers for this (we see the refund, but Amazon covers it since they’re doing the fulfillment).
- ecommerceguy 7y agoWe're primarily MF and can easily absorb some of the heat AMZ FBA is going through right now. With AMZ recently passing through their negotiated UPS rates, we should be able to ship within 2-5 days on 99% of our listings with reasonable prices. If you're shopping, look deeper into listings for faster MF Shipping!
- Stratoscope 7y agoMF? I wonder if you could explain what that means?
- ecommerceguy 7y agoMerchant Fulfilled - We handle shipping ourselves.
- thu2111 7y agoMeans they don't rely on Amazon's warehouse infrastructure, just their online store.
- leecb 7y agoI have no idea what you're talking about. What is MF?
- qntty 7y agoAfter some googling it looked like he's talking about being "merchant fulfilled" vs "fulfilled by Amazon" (FBA) on Amazon's marketplace.
- op00to 7y agoEh I don’t feel like buying fake shit. The risk is too high buying from 3rd parties on amazon.
- thenewnewguy 7y agoAren't you equally at risk buying from Amazon themselves due to inventory commingling?
- op00to 7y agoAmazon isn’t doing a great job with essentials either. I’ve had 3 amazon Fresh orders cancelled in the last week.
- sytelus 7y agoJust 72 hours ago Prime deliveries were still on March 23. About 48 hours that changed to Match 26. Now it's April 21. Could this because of staffing issues in warehouses? I also wonder how AMZN ticker will do tomorrow based this news given many people were betting on it for strong performance.
- judge2020 7y agoDow futures are already down, no doubt AMZN tanks.
- 0x8BADF00D 7y agoImagine what it will be when this starts hitting the food supply.
- skellington 7y agoI've gotten all of my prime orders in 3 or 4 days recently instead of 2. They've all been health or personal product related orders. This is perfectly acceptable given the circumstances. In my opinion, Amazon is doing an incredible job of adapting to a radical increase in demand. I don't know what their volume spike is, but it must be huge and the only effect is slow shipping in some non-essential items. They've really built an incredible infrastructure. (I don't work for them, I don't own any of their stock.)
- kfrzcode 7y agoSame here. I've had a few delays longer than that - but those were for some canned goods via Amazon Pantry. Two weeks of delays and estimates. No biggie, I still remember when Amazon was just a bookstore, and everyone got groceries and supplies at their nearest retail outlet(s). I'd be fascinated to be in some of the operations/SRE rooms at AWS. There should be some interesting content from engineering blogs this year.
- smolder 7y agoIt's also probably true that this is a top comment due to people who work for them or own stock.
- jasonmp85 7y agoI went to order a booster seat for a new childcare provider tonight and it says April 21 and everything up until now had been 2–3 days so, no, they’re not doing a great job here.
- toasterlovin 7y agoFYI, obrajesse has this to say about the April 21st delivery date in response to my comment: > Multiple items I’ve ordered this weekend with April 21 or later delivery dates got their dates moved up by 3+ weeks after order. I can tell you that, as a seller, we’ve been seeing 2-3 additional days for delivery vs. normal. There’s not really a reason I can think of that delivery dates would suddenly get delayed by an additional 3-4 weeks. Delivery times should degrade gradually as demand ramps up. My personal hunch is that Amazon is setting expectations super low (or there’s a big!).
- CaliforniaKarl 7y agoIf you are looking for a 'non-essential', and the item is being sold by "Amazon.com" (as opposed to an Amazon seller like u/toasterlovin), may I suggest ordering from another store? Companies like Guitar Center; Bed, Bath, and Beyond; and the like are still fulfilling online orders, even if the stores themselves are closed. Also, individuals are still selling wares through platforms like eBay and Etsy. Please consider purchasing things from other stores, where available. Even if you have to pay for the shipping cost.
- ipsum2 7y ago> Please consider purchasing things from other stores, where available. Even if you have to pay for the shipping cost. You haven't given a reason for doing so.
- Aeolun 7y agoBecause you want your item faster than 4 weeks from now?
- Symbiote 7y agoAnd because it supports a small business, which is more likely to be struggling financially. The small(er) business probably pays a fair rate of tax, funding the services society is even more dependent upon than usual.
- PopeDotNinja 7y agoI think he's saying he doesn't want it to become the only store. Lots of other stores are hurting.
- Kaiyou 7y agoThat's because they ain't competitive. I'm only using other stores for stuff I can't find on amazon, because I'm trusting amazon to have my back if something goes wrong.
- justlexi93 7y agoI guess all e-commerce are affected by it and I understand it due to the pandemic.
- juskrey 7y agoWho said that, say, laptop or phone replacement is not an essential item?
- jhowell 7y agoAnecdotal account from an alleged Amazon delivery driver, (from Wall Street Bets) https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/fn3irh/im_an_amazon_delivery_driver_definitely_no/ https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/fn3irh/im_a...
- hashkb 7y agoThere are plenty of other online retailers. The guitar cable example triggered me, because even in the best of times you can get better gear from a smaller business with the same two day shipping. I'm sure there are tons of other examples.
- _ph_ 7y agoYes, if anything, this might benefit small online retailers. It is also worth noting, that many local stores which have to close during the crisis have turned into online retailers of some sort. You can call them and they will deliver to your house to keep their business afloat. So even if they don't even have a proper web site, it might be worth while to pick up your phone and give them an old-fashioned call.
- submeta 7y agoNot in Berlin/Germany. Takes 2 days
- dnautics 7y agoI don't understand. Shouldn't these items then no longer be branded "Amazon prime"?
- mytailorisrich 7y agoThis is the real boom in online shopping in all sectors. I wonder if things will ever go back to the "old way" after this crisis, not least because brick and mortar stores are being destroyed on an unprecedented scale.
- lultimouomo 7y agoAmazon has also stopped shipping non-essential items in Italy and France. Their criteria for choosing essential items are kind of hard to grasp for me, and in classic Amazon style they don't tell you that there is something that is not available / you cannot buy, stuff has just disappeared from the shop. This makes it unnecessarily annoying to find out if you can buy something from them or not. Most of what you can get is still delivered quickly though - they have added one or two days to the expected delivery times in the last weeks, but from then they usually deliver one day sooner than forecasted.
- zabana 7y agoI wonder if this situation will push them even further in the direction of drone delivery.
- L_226 7y agoHere in Berlin/DE I have noticed prime delivery has been increasingly limited or removed from certain categories of items e.g. personal hygiene, cleaning. To be expected I guess but would prefer to have prime benefits (free shipping) and a longer delivery period than no benefits at all and the same extended period.
- rv-de 7y agothe system is collapsing and you demand your "prime benefits" ... do you see the irony here?
- cft 7y agoJust like commercial flying has never been the same since 9/11, Amazon delivery won't be the same after this pandemic. They will have seen that significantly slowing the delivery doesn't crater the demand, and the fact that the local retail will be further destroyed will help them to maintain this slowed regime
- paulgb 7y agoI would be surprised if that happens; free two day shipping for members is Amazon's competitive moat against other online retailers.
- teddyuk 7y agoMy nespresso coffee capsules went from £22 to £30 so it isn't so much the delivery delays but the increase in price which is annoying.
- thomasedwards 7y agoI’ve never had a cancelled delivery in all the years of using Prime and Prime Now, but this week had a Prime Now delivery cancelled. It was clear from the map that the driver was closer to the depot than our house, so decided that they ‘weren’t able to deliver’ without trying so they could get back sooner.
- Techasura 7y agoProbably the only company to thrive during the outbreak, unfortunately fortunate.
- agseward 7y agoI was wondering why I was getting quoted deliveries of May 1 - May 22 on an entire category of items marked as Prime over the weekend. They offered to speed up delivery of my $10 item to April 17 for the low price of $30. I thought some enterprising company had cornered the market and was raking in some sweet delivery fees.
- double0jimb0 7y agoTo understand how a monopoly is currently being built, please read: Amazon caused this problem themselves because of hidden pricing policy/behavior that causes artificially low price-fixing. They’ll never admit this is what caused the problem. Amazon punishes 3rd party FBA/prime sellers for raising prices by removing their listings from the “buy box” or removing their prime badge. Amazon brags to customers that they “found a new seller to sell you this item at a lower price” but in reality Amazon forces sellers to stick to their low prices because if they are ever raised to meet demand, Amazon removes prime status, effectively killing sales. (A class action lawsuit was filed last Thursday for exactly this, Amazon got sued a couple years ago for same thing, I’ll find link and repost) So you had an entire swath of consumer goods (“essential” and “non-essential”) unable to increase prices in response to demand. Amazon fulfillment centers are basically the equivalent of toilet paper right now. I can’t imagine how Amazon continues to get away with such blatant price-fixing. They will drive every major online retailer out of business. Edit: for all the downvoters, if Amazon allowed sellers to raise prices in response to demand on non-essential items, it would have slowed sales volume and not overwhelmed FCs, and my wife and I would not have a 3 week lead time on children’s Motrin.
- alexpetralia 7y agoIsn't this simply how the buy box works? If you are not the lowest price (with some consideration given to other factors, like reviews and delivery times), then you will not be in the buy box.
- double0jimb0 7y agoNo, but that’s what Amazon wants everyone to think. Even if still the lowest price, Prime badge/buy box will be removed if price increases higher than some hidden algorithm allows.
- whywhywhywhy 7y ago> and my wife and I would not have a 3 week lead time on children’s Motrin Pharmacies are still open if it’s urgent.
- chrisBob 7y agoI am most surprised by how they are scaling shipments in my area. I have only seen Amazon branded vans in my area over the last few months, but my last two orders were delivered by: 1) A plain white van with Laser Ship magnetic signs visible on the inside. 2) A sedan driven by a lady with her kid in the passenger seat.
- techslave 7y agoit’s always been that way. just not visible due to high level of background noise.
- nytesky 7y agoHonestly, I think they should quarantine packages after every handling 24 hours. When picked up it stays in pickup truck 1 day to let virus inactivate. Then one guy does the initial sorting and no one handles it for 24 hours. It would make deliveries much much slower, but put the delivery personnel at much less risk.
- ruffrey 7y agoAn interesting idea, though doubtful it would get implemented due to the huge backlog of personal items already late. Not a bad idea as a consumer - if you can swing it, just let the packages sit a day before opening them. Hopefully folks doing deliveries are smart about not touching their face, and are able to wipe down their cars afterward...steering wheel, radio knobs, touchscreens, phone, door handles...
- codazoda 7y agoI ordered a DC power cord for an Asthma nebulizer and the expected arrival date is 30-days away. Seeing that, I rummaged through my garage and found a 12v inverter and tested that with the nebulizer on its AC plug. It worked. I've got a solution but only because I have the inverter. In Utah we had an earthquake on top of the Pandemic. That threatened power and water for a time. There's a chance they will not prioritize many items correctly.
- lsllc 7y agoThis is really going to hurt businesses -- I just went to order a replacement serial programming cable I need for a project and it's saying April 21 (and it shows as in-stock too!). I can probably hack the cable to get by ... but as soon as I need something I can't hack/fix/cannibalize or get elsewhere, then I'm screwed. Sadly, any local competition has either gone out of business (Radio Shack, maybe Fry's) or is closed due to the lockdown. Hopefully, Digikey/Mouser will keep going ...
- WhyNotHugo 7y agoI really don't understand why Amazon is getting a spike of demand. What are people ordering now that they didn't usually order? I don't think stuff like facemasks and gloves can justify the huge difference in volumes, and amazon isn't providing the supplies for emergency rooms and hospitals (is it?).
- JeremyNT 7y agoAnecdote: I've got a daughter who is stuck at home since schools are closed. I've been trying to think of ways to entertain her. Some of these involve purchasing products.
- BurningFrog 7y agoPeople order everything from Amazon because they don't want to get the virus at the store.
- post_break 7y agoThat's me. Also my store just doesn't have it. Stuff like kitty litter, cat food, etc.
- Mediterraneo10 7y agoMany people are ordering online not because they desperately want to avoid the virus, but simply because shops in their area are closed. Many younger and healty people, looking at coronavirus mortality rates, would have no qualms about shopping in a physical location right now if the only risk would be coming down with relatively mild cold symptoms, but the authorities are shutting those physical locations so that the virus can't spread and affect those demographics that would be concerned.
- ForrestN 7y agoAmazon sells basically everything. Paper towels and toilet paper are in short supply, non-perishable food items, cooking supplies, items for working at home, diapers, toys and other items for quarantined kids, extra vitamins and supplements that could run out, pet food and supplies, etc. Like everywhere, some art shifting in person shopping to delivery, and many are hoarding, both of which have a big effect.
- dageshi 7y agoStill delivering next day in the UK, received some coffee beans this morning. Probably helps that the roads are a lot quieter than usual right now.
- 45ure 7y agoIt would depend on where you are from in the UK, and how close you are to a distribution point. In London, it is generally between next day and a week at worst, for some items. I expect this situation to change over the coming weeks. However, grouping things into a single delivery and only ordering essentials is of supreme importance right now, in order to give everyone a chance.
- gambiting 7y agoSame, up here in North East a lot of things are showing as available for next day delivery still. Also got a parcel today that I ordered yesterday.
- Havoc 7y agoStopped ordering for a while. Nothing is that urgent my side so I’ll wait a bit
- tracker1 7y agoI had been using a 42" 4K screen for a while on my desktop, as I haven't used it that much... using it for a week, was kind of neck strain for me... I realized I avoided windows on the edges, so I figured a 32" 1440p would probably be functionally the same... On Amazon, they were all close to a month or more out for delivery... went out to Best Buy, man, options limited there too. But did get a 32" 1440p display, just not high refresh, ips, freesync like I had wanted. In the end, not too surprised... will probably be a year or more for everything to really normalize. I do think panic buying is causing most of the issues, and that's the biggest issue effecting everything.
- helij 7y agoI had PrimeNow (UK) slot to be delivered between 6-8pm but nothing came. It says package is still being prepared. It's getting worrying now as the whole UK is closing down and there is an even bigger rush on online shops. We need to isolate for 14 days at least due to suspected Corona virus infection (looks to be mild). We have enough to power through but it's getting serious. Slots are now available online in April and May.
- new_realist 7y agoWill Amazon be refunding Prime fees?