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Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by sumoboy » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

mfonda wrote: post #73

Amazon Restaurants is a great service which has been around for some time now, at least here in Seattle. I use it pretty much exclusively now instead of other similar services I've used in the past. The minimum order is much lower ($20 instead of $30 or $40 a lot of other services add), there's no delivery fees, and your driver is tracked via GPS with guaranteed delivery windows, so you have a much better idea of whe…

Hybrid car + amazon + uber + lyft + no education other than reading a gps map = lifetime job for drivers. Just like broadband, just need to figure out that last mile for these services.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by chrisdbaldwin » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 9:50 PM UTC

jsheard wrote: post #30

chrisan wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I had never heard of it before. From the news[1] I saw it was new in a city dear to me. Mods can delete the post, my bad! [1]: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2016/12/15/...

Your post is currently #2 on the front page... apparently a lot of people had no idea this existed. Amazons marketing people have some explaining to do :)

Their marketing people are doing fine. This service isn't available everywhere, and when it was made available in my city, my local network quickly learned about it and started using it.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by dmurray » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 9:50 PM UTC

Finnucane wrote: post #77

guelo wrote: post #50

This is obviously part of Amazon's effort to build out their own delivery network in order to muscle out fedex, ups, usps, etc. If their drivers aren't delivering packages they can be delivering food. That makes their whole delivery network stronger because it allows them to have more drivers employed driving around town all the time. It's the same reason Uber got into food delivery.

Does that mean your food delivery depends on the package delivery schedule? "Sorry your pizza is cold but we had to deliver a TV first." For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option.

I think Amazon will figure out that hot food needs to be delivered fast and will generally get prioritised over delivering a TV.

> For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option.

Most people don't care about getting the absolute fastest option, or if they do, they will still compromise for convenience.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by throw7 » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 9:52 PM UTC

chrisan wrote: post #22

SallySwanSmith wrote: post #3

Amazon restaurants is hardly new. My first order was over a year ago. Is there something else new that I'm missing?

Sorry, I had never heard of it before. From the news[1] I saw it was new in a city dear to me. Mods can delete the post, my bad! [1]: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2016/12/15/...

I had heard of prime now awhile ago, but didn't realize they delivered for restaurants. I'm in a non-metro area though, so this service will probably never be available for me.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by pk0020 » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 9:56 PM UTC

As much as I love Uber...I don't feel bullish that they will beat out amazon and their network of vendors/merchants. Uber might go the way of replicating the last mile as a service model that amazon is exploring with their prime now networks, but I'm not sure how Uber will scale this late game since it's not a real core competency.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by airesQ » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 9:56 PM UTC

So Deliveroo for the US?

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by analogmemory » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 9:57 PM UTC

ryaneager wrote: post #12

I received a free $20 to Amazon Restaurants for buying something on cyber Wednesday, didn't know that was a thing until I received the email. I used it to order pizza from a local joint, because who doesn't like free pizza. Ordering was interesting, they didn't have the pizza I wanted listed under the pre-made options, so I had to make my own, but there was no option to do half and half and adding additional topping…

Good tip on the pizza. I'll just stick to things that deliver well, Indian, Thai and Sandwiches.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by wineisfine » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 9:57 PM UTC

As a consumer I couldn't be more then delighted by the Amazon (customer) service.

However, when I read how they threat their employees: it sounds horrible.

Let's hope they never get to the tipping point that they can threat Restaurants, like their employees.

That said: I like it that they try out new things and don't care about failing.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by ChadMoran » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 9:58 PM UTC

wineisfine wrote: post #88

As a consumer I couldn't be more then delighted by the Amazon (customer) service. However, when I read how they threat their employees: it sounds horrible. Let's hope they never get to the tipping point that they can threat Restaurants, like their employees. That said: I like it that they try out new things and don't care about failing.

As a Software Engineer with Amazon I have only great things to say.

EDIT: I've been at Amazon over 5 years.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by dsugarman » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #32

gthtjtkt wrote: post #19

This is kind of terrifying after hearing so many life-ruining stories about the rash decisions Amazon makes when dealing with 3rd party sellers ([1] from last week, for example). Everyone always says "Don't stake your livelihood on platforms you don't control" (e.g. Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), but what happens when one of those platforms suddenly forces its way into your business? How can a restaurant owner tur…

That story is just...insane. I'm glad I have a separate account for my maybe-one-day-business and one for personal use but still they need to let them talk to a real PERSON before locking out an account like so. I can only imagine what would have happened if he didn't post to a website where it gained traction. If it wasn't upvoted out of reddit's new, would he just be completely screwed? Damn...

If you have ever logged into both accounts with the same IP, they can tie the accounts together. That is not a hypothetical if, they will ban an account if someone logs into Seller Central from an IP of a previously banned account.