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Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by dx034 »

simonbarker87 wrote: post #195
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.

The problem at the moment is Amazon logistics (at least here in the UK) is terrible. Prime went from a next day, 1-hour delivery window, fully tracked with DPD generally delivered by 1 pm to next day sometime between 8 and 8, no tracking and sometimes not delivered at all for no reason. If a parcel arrives at 8 pm the day after it's ordered it's not a next day service as far as I'm concerned, it might as well arrive…

I'm actually happy with amazon logistics (London). They deliver every day (unlike basically everyone else), so I can order on Saturday and receive the item on Sunday.

They also always find a neighbor to accept the package. Royal mail always leaves a card which means I have to pick it up from a post office (which is only open when I work). The main reason I order nearly everything from Amazon is that most other sellers here use Royal Mail 2nd class, which for my address takes at least 4 days to arrive, before christmas often 2 weeks or more.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by zimpenfish »

dx034 wrote: post #211
simonbarker87 wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem at the moment is Amazon logistics (at least here in the UK) is terrible. Prime went from a next day, 1-hour delivery window, fully tracked with DPD generally delivered by 1 pm to next day sometime between 8 and 8, no tracking and sometimes not delivered at all for no reason. If a parcel arrives at 8 pm the day after it's ordered it's not a next day service as far as I'm concerned, it might as well arrive…

I'm actually happy with amazon logistics (London). They deliver every day (unlike basically everyone else), so I can order on Saturday and receive the item on Sunday. They also always find a neighbor to accept the package. Royal mail always leaves a card which means I have to pick it up from a post office (which is only open when I work). The main reason I order nearly everything from Amazon is that most other seller…

> Royal mail always leaves a card

Sometimes they leave a card without a tracking number (last month.) That was fun. But at least I knew it was for me.

Because there was the time with the card that had a tracking number but no name or flat number. And then the card that had three digits of the tracking number and no name or flat number.

Royal Mail are pretty awful at being a courier.

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Post by dx034 »

nitrogen wrote: post #159
GordonS wrote: post #130

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Do you mean GPS tracking of your takeaway delivery? I've never understood why someone would want to be glued to their phone/tablet watching every move their pizza makes. Seriously, just why would you possibly care what street it's currently on?

It seems like a violation of the privacy of other customers, too. Everywhere your food stops you can surmise there was another delivery.

At least Uber Eats only seems to show it when you're up next. The driver often starts appearing not at the restaurant but somewhere else.

In cities this shouldn't be easy to track anyway. And then you could also jsut follow the Uber bike. Don't think that the fact that someone ordered food is private (what they ordered might be).

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Post by paulcole »

ziszis wrote: post #180
paulcole wrote: post #175

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>Amazon's ability to prioritize the customer over themselves Can you give some examples of times when Amazon HASN'T put the desires of the vast majority of customers first?

There are many examples. Here is an obvious one - when Amazon stopped selling Apple TVs to punish Apple. Hard to see how this is good for consumers. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/10/01/amazon_blocks...

A counter-argument is that fewer options helps consumers actually choose something that's good enough rather than debating and hand-wringing over their choice. Costco is pretty good at this.

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Post by jacalata »

georgespencer wrote: post #199
jon-wood wrote: post #197

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I'd argue that's next evening service, next day implies it'll arrive in the daytime to me.

This is because your interpretation of 'day' is of being a subcomponent of a 24 hour period (which probably also includes 'evening' and 'night'). The definition Amazon and every other company offering 'next day delivery' is that 'next day' means 'the next day'. As in the day after you buy the thing. It's a much more reasonable interpretation of the term because it's not open to colloquial misunderstandings (in your i…

If I'm ordering from an office that closes at 5pm, then no 6pm is not 'next day'.

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Post by celticninja »

wwalser wrote: post #42
celticninja wrote: post #34

This must be worrying for JustEat who just purchased HungryHouse. Amazon getting in on your business is never great.

Interesting when companies have different names in different countries. It's called Delivery Hero in Australia. I suspect it's a UK based company which eventually got large enough to buy a similar AU based company and just kept the name in order to maintain an already established brand. Unilever has like 8 different ice cream brands in different countries all sharing the same logo and mostly selling the same products…

I think Just Eat came first in the UK and was actually pitched on Dragons Den and they have subsequently bought other similar ventures, retained the brand identity of their acquisitions and I assume centralised everything else, I didn't know thet had branched out internationally.

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Post by dsugarman »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #163
dsugarman wrote: post #90

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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.

Source? While they could certainly do this IP addresses are shared quite frequently due to NAT. It seems inevitable that a banned IP address will login to another account at some point. I can't imagine they ban IP addresses lightly.

I've seen it happen and also have spoken to people within amazon who have confirmed. They might do it with cookies instead of IP addresses but if you log into a banned account from a computer that regularly logs into a non banned account, your account will be banned, period.

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Post by qntty »

ChadMoran wrote: post #176
untog wrote: post #95

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Of course, you're valuable. A company is much more interesting to assess according to how they treat less valued workers, like warehouse staff. Amazon does not rate highly in that regard.

Lots of my friends work in CS and they love their jobs.

He's referring to warehouse staff.
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