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A lot of comments seem to be from people who aren't aware that Amazon's delivery network kind of sucks in huge swaths of America. If you're not in a major metr

A lot of comments seem to be from people who aren't aware that Amazon's delivery network kind of sucks in huge swaths of America. If you're not in a major metropolitan area, Prime delivery took about a week pre-Covid, and things have only gotten worse since then. Compare Walmart store locations [1] to Amazon fulfillment centers [2] and you'll see that delivering from their stores enables them to cover a lot of rapid-delivery territory where Amazon just isn't. 1 https://www.scrapehero.com/store/wp-content/uploads/maps/Walmart_USA.png https://www.scrapehero.com/store/wp-content/uploads/maps/Wal... 2 https://truthout.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/02-Amazon-Warehouse-Map-courtesy-of-www.freightos.comG2018google.png https://truthout.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/02-Amazon-Wa...

adolfojp 6y ago
That's really it. I live in Puerto Rico which is one of those places where Amazon kind of sucks. Items used to take over a week to get here and I was OK with that because I understand geographic limitations. Now they often take a month, which I'm willing to accept because of current circumstances. But what puts me off is that they flat out refuse to sell me many items. I have a Prime subscription but my last phone didn't come from Amazon. It came from Walmart online. Even eBay serves my region better. About Walmart, I have a Walmart owned supermarket within walking distance of my house, a Supercenter about 9 miles away, and there's a Sam's club right next to it. My groceries and my medicines come from a store owned by Walmart and they're everywhere. If I didn't have the time or the energy to buy my parents their groceries I would get them delivered to them from Walmart. Now, I don't expect to use their service (if it becomes available here) because most of my online shopping consists of items that I can't find locally, but for people in areas like mine who can't visit or who don't like to visit physical stores this service would be great.

adolfojp 6y ago

That's really it. I live in Puerto Rico which is one of those places where Amazon kind of sucks. Items used to take over a week to get here and I was OK with that because I understand geographic limitations. Now they often take a month, which I'm willing to accept because of current circumstances. But what puts me off is that they flat out refuse to sell me many items. I have a Prime subscription but my last phone didn't come from Amazon. It came from Walmart online. Even eBay serves my region better. About Walmart, I have a Walmart owned supermarket within walking distance of my house, a Supercenter about 9 miles away, and there's a Sam's club right next to it. My groceries and my medicines come from a store owned by Walmart and they're everywhere. If I didn't have the time or the energy to buy my parents their groceries I would get them delivered to them from Walmart. Now, I don't expect to use their service (if it becomes available here) because most of my online shopping consists of items that I can't find locally, but for people in areas like mine who can't visit or who don't like to visit physical stores this service would be great.