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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.

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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
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