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No Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, and Kansas City. Upper Midwest is conspicuously absent.

• mason240 11y ago
  They just started building a new distribution warehouse in the Twin Cities. I'm guessing when it's done we will have same day shipping.
• nostrebored 11y ago
  Fair point. Seems to be Amazon strategy though, after looking at their distribution center map: https://scmmsublogs.wordpress.com/scm-strategies/amazon-com-inc/ https://scmmsublogs.wordpress.com/scm-strategies/amazon-com-... Wouldn't be surprised to see Chicago added to the list of supported cities soon, but Houston, Minneapolis, and Kansas City are all pretty far from current/planned distribution centers.
  • drone 11y ago
    There is a distribution center in Houston now: http://www.hkatexas.com/2014/06/amazon-fulfillment-houston-humble-texas/ http://www.hkatexas.com/2014/06/amazon-fulfillment-houston-h...
  • bbarn 11y ago
    Chicago might have a bit of a unique problem with traffic to and from warehouses as well. Real estate is very expensive in city limits and the infrastructure here doesn't support the model all that well. I bet they could manage, but it's got to be a significantly higher start cost here vs. other metros. This would be a city to invest in AFTER vetting out the model in cheaper cities.
  • ChickeNES 11y ago
    Amazon is opening warehouses on Goose Island in Chicago and in Joliet in the near future: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-amazon-goose-island-0430-biz-20150429-story.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-amazon-goose-islan...