How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail
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#2Amazon is playing chess while the brick and mortar stores are playing checkers.
Re: How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail
#3More technology driven hyper-deflation on the way.
The future: high inflation in food, energy, fuel, and consumables, hyper-deflation in everything else except to the extent that it depends on or consumes the former.
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#4I bought 2 things on Amazon this week, both with free 2 day shipping with Prime
Item 1 spent 13 hours on a UPS truck driving around my city and was delivered about 7pm in the evening 2 days after ordering.
Item 2 was delivered 14 hours after purchasing by Amazon Fresh at 9am.
For the same price of shipping, which service would you rather have?
EDIT To Add: The delivery guy for the 14 hour item works for Amazon - the whole experience was produced by Amazon without needing a third party. UPS is another company that will be in trouble if Amazon can make this scale.
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#5Amazon is playing chess while the brick and mortar stores are playing checkers.
Can you elaborate?
Re: How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail
#6Amazon is playing chess while the brick and mortar stores are playing checkers.
Can you elaborate?
Amazon is playing a complicated but more rewarding game with millions of moves and therefore ample opportunities to innovate, while old fashioned brick and mortar stores are stuck in a simple game with little to no room for more innovation.
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#7Isn't this just one step away from Amazon just being another brick-and-mortar? If this is the case, is not having an actual store that is accessible by customers (and coincidentally, the neccessary staff), that much of a operational advantage?
Or is this just a case of the more efficient company (Amazon) beating out less efficient companies (Best Buy, Barnes and Nobles, etc...)?
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#8This is crazy - I ordered 3 things from Amazon today through Prime and started wondering if/when a day would come when you'd have same day delivery from Amazon and what it would look like. I figured it would happen someday, but thought the complexities would be too much to handle for a while. Looks like they're way ahead of me. This is why I love Amazon.
Re: How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail
#9More technology driven hyper-deflation on the way. The future: high inflation in food, energy, fuel, and consumables, hyper-deflation in everything else except to the extent that it depends on or consumes the former.
Solid analysis, the only other online community I frequent is zerohedge and they have been calling it biflation for some time now.
Things like housing, equity, and bond prices will deflate while commodity prices will continue to inflate.
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#10Looks like Amazon is finally bringing Webvan to fruition. Only took 11 years.