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Amazon aims for same day delivery

by on11 December 2014

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Good luck with that in Italy

Amazon wants to expand its same-day delivery program globally.

The outfit sees fast delivery as the only way to compete with the instant gratification offered by brick-and-mortar stores.

Amazon is also looking to add a same-day delivery option on all items sold by third-party merchants on its site, a move that some logistics experts said may help offset the high costs of speedy, last-mile delivery.

Job listings echo the expansion of the one day delivery programme.

"Our long-term vision is that customers can order and receive a sellers' product the same day anywhere in the world," according to one job listing posted in late October.

It is not clear how Amazon hopes to meet its goals and how it would extend same-day delivery to more third-party sellers, who account for 40 percent of items sold on Amazon's website and pay fees between 8 percent and 20 percent in most categories.

They also have to cope with the fact that in places like Italy, delivery happen whenever the person can be bothered to deliver it (if ever). A Lulu mail out in the US takes a week, while to Italy it takes a month to six weeks.

Amazon offers same-day delivery in just over a dozen U.S. cities, charging $5.99 for members of its Prime program while non-members pay $8.99. In October, the company launched a same-day delivery service in the United Kingdom with newspaper delivery company Connect Group.

 

Last modified on 20 December 2014
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