They gave up on prime deliveries arriving in two days sometime last year and they raised the price of Prime. Maybe they think I'm going to stay subscribed to Prime out of inertia and keep buying stuff from AMZN out of inertia but it isn't so.
I'm not going to accept any excuse about why AMZN can't do 2 day delivery anymore because every other online retailer (Walmart, Target, BestBuy, Adorama, Office Depot) sees fast shipping as a way to impress me. Even Ebay orders from Japan get to me faster than AMZN orders.
It adds insult to injury that, at about this time, AMZN announced they'd have same day and 1-day delivery to a few anointed urban areas. Like where my congressman lives in Washington, DC and where people who work in the media in New York and Los Angeles live.
They'll be writing about this one in business school case studies for a long time.
Edit: nvm didn’t read the last part. But I don’t live in a super big urban area either, weird
For what it's worth, I live in a suburb of Cincinnati (thirty minutes from downtown) and I have 1-day delivery. I have to meet a $25 minimum or else pay $3, but the option is there. It feels strange to me that thirty minutes outside urban Cincinnati would be an "anointed urban area".
Over the last several months I have consciously been avoiding my knee-jerk of ordering from Amazon and going to Costco instead, after a few price comparisons convinced me how much more affordable Costco prices are.
I’m sure I’m not alone in this. Anecdotally noticing huge crowds at Costco.
The economy is growing and US unemployment is at 50 year lows, that is clear fact and not speculation.