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https://www.wivb.com/news/national/amazon-wants-prime-customers-to-just-get-packages-once-per-week/1820144894?fbclid=IwAR28ChgQq52PhgufTyRksL-JSopNa5GcYLzHWTsev6xVzlD4SXk9zmTZaaQ

Amazon is hoping some of its Prime customers will opt to receive packages only once a week.

It's launching "Amazon Day" for Prime members.

Here's how it works -- All of the items you order during the week will be saved online. Then, on whatever day you pick, they'll be delivered together.
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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2019, 05:22:49 pm »
No thank you.  Not unless I get charged less for the privilege of saving them shipping money ... I MIGHT consider it then.
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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2019, 05:41:24 pm »
So... after doubling their profits from last year....and yet paying virtually no taxes.... they now want to cut services to save costs... at the expense of their best (Prime) customer?  How typically leftist/greedy of them.... tsk tsk.

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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2019, 06:16:01 pm »
I'm fine with this.  If this keeps them more competitive, good.

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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2019, 06:17:48 pm »
Well, I for one don't care since I'm retired and can usually make myself available in a particular day to receive packages.  I usually don't order anything I need right away.  Besides, at least for now, this service is voluntary. 

What I would like for Amazon to do is rid themselves of Fed Ex and UPS.  For some things, Amazon still uses them. After living in my house since 1989, neither Fed Ex nor UPS can find my house anymore. 

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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2019, 06:32:00 pm »
Well, I for one don't care since I'm retired and can usually make myself available in a particular day to receive packages.  I usually don't order anything I need right away.  Besides, at least for now, this service is voluntary. 

What I would like for Amazon to do is rid themselves of Fed Ex and UPS.  For some things, Amazon still uses them. After living in my house since 1989, neither Fed Ex nor UPS can find my house anymore.

I only care some of the time but when I do care, I REALLY care about that 2-day shipping. For example, we have a new faucet for the currently inoperable kitchen sink scheduled to be delivered today. After having been without water in my kitchen for the past 4 days I am not interested in waiting for some particular once-per-week date.

Other times, though, I'm fine to use the "no rush" shipping option and I often do so.

I wish they would quit using the US Postal Service for some of their packages.  That always adds at least one extra day to the process and leaves me without any way to track it.  Bleh.

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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2019, 10:41:39 pm »
I don't have Prime.  But if I have a certain amount of dollar purchases the shipping is free.  A whole week of purchases would probably exceed that amount.  Sadly, this sounds like a scam. But if a person likes their tv services maybe not.

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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2019, 10:53:51 pm »
So... after doubling their profits from last year....and yet paying virtually no taxes.... they now want to cut services to save costs... at the expense of their best (Prime) customer?  How typically leftist/greedy of them.... tsk tsk.

They're not going to stop trying to be more profitable just because they're already extremely successful.
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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2019, 10:56:09 pm »
So... after doubling their profits from last year....and yet paying virtually no taxes.... they now want to cut services to save costs... at the expense of their best (Prime) customer?  How typically leftist/greedy of them.... tsk tsk.

They paid lots of taxes, just not the ones that particular story was about.

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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2019, 12:02:39 am »
They paid lots of taxes, just not the ones that particular story was about.

Really?   Got a link?
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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2019, 12:44:15 am »
Really?   Got a link?

Here's one:  http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,351807.msg1920964.html#msg1920964

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« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2019, 01:06:07 am »
Really?   Got a link?
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This is a snip about the Virginia Amazon site.


Opportunity zones were created as part of the Trump administration’s December 2017 tax bill and allowed governors to select as many as a quarter of their census tracts to qualify for the subsidies. For a limited time, investors who develop real estate or fund businesses in opportunity zones are able to defer capital gains on profits earned elsewhere and completely eliminate them on new investments.


Before people start screaming about any corporation not paying taxes or getting tax breaks they need to understand it isn't the corporations making the tax laws.

Corporations are famous for paying as little tax as possible.

I looked around a byte for some other articles @Sanguine and @XenaLee  but nothing really jumped out at me.

Kinda interesting about their new grocery business. With once a week delivery? Sounds kind of dumb to me. My wife orders some food for her mom on Amazon.

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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2019, 01:06:27 am »
Great. More stuff for the thieves to take.
The way Amazon delivers to me is by slowing the truck slightly and chucking my package on the sidewalk, on the way to the next.
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If they get the package anywhere close to the vicinity of the address, 'That's Delivered!'
I'd rather risk one package than to risk all of them.
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« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2019, 01:52:49 am »
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I can't walk big stores.  Amazon is my store; I have Prime.  I did order two items two days ago, and there was a choice of when to have them delivered, each one or together.  I clicked together for a curtain and curtain rod, as both of them were necessary to get the curtain up.  I am used to two day delivery and that is why I pay for Prime.  Don't mess with my Prime.

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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2019, 02:43:02 am »
My latest purchase


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« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2019, 02:55:34 am »
Nope.
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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2019, 03:35:01 am »
You shoulda gotten this one!


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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2019, 04:04:54 am »
Here's one:  http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,351807.msg1920964.html#msg1920964

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Don't be surprised if Amazon offers fast internet before too long.

Today on the radio I heard they are opening some retail grocery stores, in addition to their purchase of hole Foods, and they are looking to purchase regional grocery chains.

This plan looks like a move into local brick and mortar retail, now that they dominate online shopping.

These internet age businesses move fast. They go from initial small size to larger size, with "scaling" as they call it.

Amazon started as an online book store in Seattle in the early/mid 1990s and I bought from them.

Maybe they can pick up some Sears and Pennys locations, too. 
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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2019, 04:15:12 am »
If they move in this direction there would be absolutely no point in prime membership.  May as well cancel and go back to a $35 minimum order to get free shipping and a regular delivery time.

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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2019, 03:22:34 pm »
Don't be surprised if Amazon offers fast internet before too long.

Today on the radio I heard they are opening some retail grocery stores, in addition to their purchase of hole Foods, and they are looking to purchase regional grocery chains.

This plan looks like a move into local brick and mortar retail, now that they dominate online shopping.

These internet age businesses move fast. They go from initial small size to larger size, with "scaling" as they call it.

Amazon started as an online book store in Seattle in the early/mid 1990s and I bought from them.

Maybe they can pick up some Sears and Pennys locations, too.

If they mess up the delivery system, then they will end up as a brick and mortar store and they'll become the next Sears.
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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #20 on: March 02, 2019, 04:39:58 pm »
If they mess up the delivery system, then they will end up as a brick and mortar store and they'll become the next Sears.

Exactly.  They have set the standard for service and now they want to do away with it?  It makes no sense.  They've gone from two day delivery, to (depending on where one lives) one day delivery, then to local same day delivery.  This would be going backwards.  We are not living on an island where the mail boat comes once per week.

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« Reply #21 on: March 02, 2019, 04:47:16 pm »
Exactly.  They have set the standard for service and now they want to do away with it?  It makes no sense.  They've gone from two day delivery, to (depending on where one lives) one day delivery, then to local same day delivery.  This would be going backwards.  We are not living on an island where the mail boat comes once per week.

No, but when I order several things at once, they tend to trickle in, which requires me to be at home for hours several days in a row.  I would much prefer they all arrive at one time.

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« Reply #22 on: March 02, 2019, 05:17:23 pm »
No, but when I order several things at once, they tend to trickle in, which requires me to be at home for hours several days in a row.  I would much prefer they all arrive at one time.

Amazon used to allow the option to ship all at once, but now there are so many sellers that are not sent from Amazon Fulfillment that's probably gone away.  I have an item due today that was sent directly to me from the seller.

The option was on the checkout page.
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Re: Amazon wants Prime customers to just get packages once per week
« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2019, 05:41:40 pm »
Amazon used to allow the option to ship all at once, but now there are so many sellers that are not sent from Amazon Fulfillment that's probably gone away.  I have an item due today that was sent directly to me from the seller. The option was on the checkout page.
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I seldom buy anything that is not "Prime".  I also check to see if it will be sent by Amazon or another company.  I trust Amazon to get it here, not so much another company.

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« Reply #24 on: March 02, 2019, 05:47:16 pm »
@Cyber Liberty

I seldom buy anything that is not "Prime".  I also check to see if it will be sent by Amazon or another company.  I trust Amazon to get it here, not so much another company.

It depends on the situation.  The new Castle is in a place where there is no AMZL, so almost everything comes by USPS or UPS.  UPS is reliable, USPS is not, even when we lived in Phoenix.  I'm expecting a package today, it's Prime and being delivered by USPS.  I won't be surprised of I have to report another lost package tomorrow.  If I seem much more of this, it's bye-bye Amazon if I can't get them to stop using USPS.
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