Amazon Bringing Same-Day Delivery To 'Millions' of Rural Customers (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/24/1440237/amazon-bringing-same-day-delivery-to-millions-of-rural-customers
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/691877/amazon-same-day-delivery-small-town-rural
> Speedier deliveries will be available to residents "in more than 4,000 smaller cities, towns, and rural communities," the company said in a press release Tuesday.
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> Items categorized as "everyday essentials," including groceries, beauty products, household goods, or pet food, will now be available to small town or rural customers for same-day or next-day delivery. If they are Prime subscribers (currently $14.99 a month or $139 annually), they get unlimited free same-day delivery when spending over $25 at checkout.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/691877/amazon-same-day-delivery-small-town-rural
Possible game changer for poverty levels (Score:2)
If this is real rural rather than "Suburb with pick-up trucks that drive by a field of cows on their way to the office" rural, then this could be a game changer in terms both of reducing food deserts and bringing competition to some of the slimier companies that bribe officials to get tax cuts, put the few local stores out of business, and then charge monopoly prices on the people who are in the area.
But as always we have to look at what Amazon will charge for this. And will they abuse their monopoly if the
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Definitely. We're in 2nd day zone in a small town housing development, but can't get Whole (Paycheck) Foods delivery despite being 25 miles from the nearest WF. There isn't a Trader Joe's or similar within 50 miles. ):
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They do offer half-price Prime delivery if you have an EBT card.
Amazon needs Operation Spiderweb (Score:2)
Load up 10 drones to fly out of the top of the truck to deliver small parcels in a neighborhood, and then the human goes and delivers a couple of boxes too.
Also coming (Score:2)
Amazon will also roll out the "Random default to Amazon Day delivery" feature as well.
Without drones? (Score:2)
How can it be done without drone delivery tech?
Re:Without drones? (Score:5, Insightful)
By replacing Walmart at its own game. Already, you have stores like Walmart serving these areas. Replacing that with a mini warehouse that doubles as a staging area for two-day deliveries coming from larger warehouses is going to be lots more efficient.
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Delivery trucks.
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Tunnels. Big beautiful tunnels. The best tunnels.