Posted on 05/09/2023 8:40:31 PM PDT by jimtorr
Amazon.com ...... is offering U.S. customers $10 to pick up a purchase rather than have it shipped to a home address, as the e-commerce giant joins other retailers in racing to slash costs for home delivery and returns amid slack consumer demand. ........................................................................................................................
"We offer customers a variety of ways to get their packages, inclusive of delivery and pickup options. The $10 Amazon Pickup promotion isn't new," the company said in a statement. Amazon did not say for how long this or similar pickup promotions have been in use.
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If I order to a locker it takes an extra day.
they need to have strip mall stores with lockers and pickup for larger items.
probably local stock for most ordered items.
They are doing the rollout of new product/service. I accepted the offer. It was a one-time $10 coupon (at least in my case). The entire experience SUCKED.
You have to have this $h1t app from Amazon on your phone. After you do that you realize the scam is the app. They send texts and notices like teenage girls.
It was not worth the $10.
I have Am Prime. Occasionally, on multi-item orders, they ‘offer’ a couple of dollars ‘digital’ credit if I allow extra days to combine shipping on items.
The problem is that the digital credits expire after so many days, so they are basically useless.
It is ironic that an honest Nigerian complains about scams
Remember when Prime used to be immediate shipping? Now we pay more for Prime and have to wait a few days before shipping occurs.
I knew this was coming due to “porch pirates” who steal more and more packages including four times this year from me and several times last year.
I hate to have to go somewhere myself to save them the trouble of safe, efficient delivery to me. Especially with Michigan’s ice storms, heavy snow, low temperatures or rain and wind storms when I would like my packages nicely on my porch.
Yes, I remember.
I wonder if non-Prime get their items in the same time as Prime, now.
My Amazon wallet as hacked and laptop delivered to strange address.
Amazon said it was a phone order! Amazon doesn’t do that!
Credit card wouldn’t pay Amazon so they canceled my account and hounded me for weeks.
Inside job?
Amazon has forgotten what made them popular.
May as well shop at a regular store.
Won’t work for me. Rural and mobility handicapped, home delivery is my only option.
I agree. If I was ready and willing to ‘pick up’ my purchase, I may as well enter the store and buy it myself to begin with.
Delivery could be made to work more efficiently if the delivery man could make an appointment for those at home.
Make an appointment with a 30 minute or even 60 minute window. The same as AT&T might do when installing a new phone line indoors. I would be willing to go for that.
I still miss a good pair of size 14 men’s moccassins (mine!) I ordered that were stolen from my front door a year ago.
The company just sent a second pair, taking a second gamble that no one would steal them again. This time I got them.
I was a very early Prime member.
But their service was starting to suck prior to Covid and it went downhill from there and hasn’t recovered. I cancelled a few years ago when two day delivery became three and then four and then five because they couldn’t be bothered to ship the items out for a couple of days, even if I verify Amazon is the seller and they say it’s available to ship. That doesn’t even count all the crap shipping from China they try to slip into the mix.
I find I get better service from random sellers on ebay.
Actually Walmart is doing a better job now than Amazon!! Wayfair does an AMAZING job and FREE SHIPPING on everything!! I have been AMAZED at how fast Wayfair gets orders to my door!!
Kinda like Fox has forgotten what made them popular!!!
Having to go pick it up. $10 or not, could cause a lot of people to NOT order because the service became less simple.
I may be wrong and this will be a huge success for Amazon but still.. people LOVE paying for convenience and simplicity.
I pay for Amazon Prime yearly. I expect my packages to be delivered to my door, not left in a locker that I have to inconvenience myself to leave the house to fetch it. I’m 75. If I don’t have to go out, I don’t. Porch bandits steal people’s packages on a regular basis. I’ve never had that happen because I live in a small apartment building in a low crime rate city in central NY State. If I lived in a high crime area, I’d be concerned that if thieves will hang out in people’s neighborhoods to scope out packages sitting on their porch, what will stop those same thieves from scoping out these lockers so they can steal from people after they’ve picked their stuff up...especially the most vulnerable folks. Having worked in uniform for NY State’s prison system for 25 years, I know that not all the criminals are behind bars. I’ve been retired for 20 years, but I never lost being security conscious. And in today’s world, they don’t even jail the repeat offenders. They just cut them loose within hours of being picked up so they can go right back out and commit more crimes.
Everything old is new again. In my youth, in the early 1960’s I recall being in the car as my mother would go to a Service Merchandise warehouse pickup lane to get something ordered from a catalog. In those days I think they mailed out a post card telling you to come and pick up your order.
My kids were born in 1966 and 1971. I can still remember having to drive a half-hour so I could pick up my order from Penney’s. You can’t do that anymore, because there are no Penney’s in this area. There aren’t even any decent department stores near us. The closest mall that is still functioning is an hour away. I hate having to buy clothes online. You can’t see the stuff in person, feel the fabric, or try it on. Same thing with a pair of decent shoes (not sneakers). The shoe stores in this area have shit.
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