Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries

Re:Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries by smileysteve on Thursday April 24, 2014 @05:37PM (#7643221)

Have you heard of subscribe and save? It prevents all of those (given fresh) and saves amazon in shipping costs.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries by sukuriant on Thursday April 24, 2014 @05:59PM (#7643348)

I have not; but the point around my list was the sudden 'woops', where things are eaten up more quickly than expected, or there's a surprise one-off expense. Cough syrup, in particular, is more of a one-off thing. Most people don't run out of it on a schedule

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries by smileysteve on Friday April 25, 2014 @12:28AM (#7644788)

Sadly, like the Target predicting a pregnant teen, Amazon could probably use data to figure out when you need cough medicine.

The ultimate operations experience is JIT arrival based on predictive behaviors.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries by sukuriant on Friday April 25, 2014 @05:02PM (#7649015)

That sort of research could be invaluable to the CDC and may in fact be worth researching more closely

[ Parent | on HN ]