Amazon and Google are on a collision course

Re:Amazon and Google are on a collision course by GabrielF00 on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @05:13PM (#5676995)

Glasses are a poor example because they have to be customized for each customer. Did you really think that they had your prescription with your choice of lens coating in stock that they could just ship out to you next day?

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Re:Amazon and Google are on a collision course by blhack on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @05:35PM (#5677111)

Yes. Lenscrafters etc. have been doing 1 hour glasses since the 1990s.

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Re:Amazon and Google are on a collision course by bgilroy26 on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @05:47PM (#5677173)

With an extensive network of lens millers who are distributed so that each worker has a short list of lenses to grind, which are all destined for local customers.

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Re:Amazon and Google are on a collision course by blhack on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @06:03PM (#5677249)

I'm interested here, maybe I'm wrong.

My impression is that when I buy glasses at lenscrafters, they're grinding lenses there, in house.

Are you saying that they're couriered around my city when I order them or something?

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Re:Amazon and Google are on a collision course by bgilroy26 on Sunday May 12, 2013 @12:11PM (#5694749)

No that's all the distribution I was talking about. It seems like there's a pets.com aspect to the whole situation. Where

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Re:Amazon and Google are on a collision course by jaynos on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @06:09PM (#5677289)

This isn't just a glasses phenomenon. I see it (or used to before I started buying only from Amazon) from all sorts of sellers. If I choose 1 or 2 day shipping, it should be going out the next day at the latest (if UPS already showed up today). The no questions asked return policy from Amazon is why I know buy shoes and clothing from them also.

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