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.
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.
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.
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.
ween the consumers off the same-day/next-day free shipping
I dropped communist amazon years ago. They hate people like me so I will not give them any of my money.
I received an Amazon order on time yesterday. The box was empty. Though, to their credit, they sent a replacement about 6 hours later after I immediately notified them of the error.
The idea of prime was that they deliver. Without that there is no reason for it because that is what people sign up for.
Maybe they should go back to the old days of Service Merchandise and open stores.
But can they open one in every one of coming 15 min cities? America has become a disorganized and unrealistic joke of itself.
The reason I prefer Amazon Locker is the proliferation of porch pirates. I’ve had a couple of deliveries stolen.
I use the pickup locker for every shipment where that is possible. No delay of an extra day. I can even predict that the shipments will be delivered at approximately 2 PM.
Why not pay a one time annual fee of $120 instead of the $180 you are paying at $15 x 12 months?
BTW, if you are paying anything it's not a profit, it could be a savings, but not a huge profit.
Wow!
That would be $10 profit if I drove an EV to pick up the package.
My closest pick up point is a 15min walk to grocery store. Thought I would try it with latest order. I do alot of unlimited kindle reading mostly space operas, history, and mysteries.