Amazon To Shut Down Speedy Brick-and-Mortar Delivery Service (theverge.com) 4
Amazon is shutting down its Amazon Today service, which provided same-day delivery from mall and brick-and-mortar retailers. The program will mostly wind down by December 2, 2024, with select partners fulfilling orders until January 2025. CNBC reports: A small amount of employees will be laid off and provided with severance, while others will be transitioned to other positions within Amazon, the company said. Employees who work on Amazon Today learned the news in a meeting on Monday, where some staffers were informed they would be laid off, the people said. Roughly 300 employees were working on Amazon Today, the people said. Amazon disputed the figure, saying there were approximately 175 employees in the unit. The closure of Amazon Today is the latest example of the company's broader cost-cutting efforts.
Wrong link? (Score:3)
The link in the article takes me to some thing talking about Google detecting AI in photos?
Corrected Link (Score:2)
Corrected Link from CNBC:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/2... [cnbc.com]
Looks like the signup page is still active on Amazon's web site and the signup link seems to work:
https://sell.amazon.com/progra... [amazon.com]
Consumers Distributing model (Score:2)
I don't know why Amazon doesn't offer up a Consumers Distributing [wikipedia.org] style model of retail. They existed up until the 90s but ultimately failed because they lack the kind of logistics tech that Amazon specializes in, and pre-dated Internet storefronts for instant ordering.
Amazon already owns all the cheap warehouse space near the airports, just open a tiny portion of those up with retail storefronts or lockers that folks who are in need of something today can go and drive down to and pick them up. Even offer t
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They tried something like that a few years ago in limited locations, it flopped.