I noticed this happening over Christmas. The one big claim to fame that Amazon has is fast and “free” shipping. But that seems to be going away now.
Alot of stuff I ordered in November and December of last year, took longer than usual to arrive. I just chalked it up to how busy the holiday season is.
Fast forward to this month, and all of the items I ordered took longer to arrive. Even “Prime” listed stuff. On the website it said shipping next day. It took two days to arrive. Stuff listed as two days to arrive turns out to be a week now, and so called “Prime next day shipping” is now only guaranteed if you spend 35 dollars or more. And even then it still arrives a day late.
So to everyone hating on Amazon, rejoice! It looks like it’s reign is starting to dip. I’ve been doing alot more shopping on Walmart who seems to have better pricing and shipping.
I wonder who the next big online retailer will be?
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“Ha, Amazon is starting to suck! I’m shopping at Walmart!” 😬
The amount of people smugly saying this like the fucking Waltons are any better than Bezos is hard to find credible.
I am still more likely to Amazon than Walmart. Fuck them Waltons.
Fr. I am at least pretty sure Amazon workers are making a decent wage. Waltons rely on food stamps and social security programs to pay their workers less than a living wage.
Their AI checkout system will routinely delete items from orders for no reason.
The multi-billion dollar hit they take from this might just trigger a bubble to burst.
Always remember the Dutch east indies trading company and being able to get homes from Sears. Both gone.
It’s amazing what Sears and the other catalog stores threw away when they just didn’t catch on to the concept of a digital catalog even after Bezos showed them how to do it.
The East India companies (there was more than one) had their own armies, and waged war.
It’s interesting how the perception of Amazon for regular users is “if the delivery takes more than a day, Amazon is slipping” when my perception has been fading for coming on a decade. Amazon’s pricing has been climbing and they welcomed millions of drop shippers and counterfeit products with fake reviews and brushing schemes everywhere. The browsing experience is miserable as a result.
At this point, it’s better to find a reputable local-ish retailer or just go to Aliexpress. If you need it so badly in the next 24hrs, go get it yourself. Amazon’s “free” shipping has warped people’s brains.
No one. The free shipping model was not sustainable, and it was never free.
Amazon is in retraction because of a drop in sales after COVID habituation and because some retailers cannot afford their 40% service fees.
Sadly no. they are dominant so they can let their service slide because what are you going to do, buy stuff elsewhere?
I actually tried that, turns out 2/3 of the sellers there just use it as an overlay interface to Amazon. I got several packages shipped in Amazon wrapping. Yay!
Trading one company not paying employees a liveable wage for another. Joy, but you do what you can.
Actually, yes. We dropped Amazon more than a year ago now, and if there’s something that needs to be ordered in, we just order from the company site. Has not been a problem. In fact, we’re probably buying less shit we don’t really need, too.
Like I said, I’ve been using Walmart more.
So to everyone hating on Amazon, rejoice! It looks like it’s reign is starting to dip.
Says the person ordering “a lot of stuff” around the holidays and
Fast forward to this month, and all of the items I ordered
who even knows how much stuff in the middle of March.
This trend has pretty much been continuous since the holidays.
The point I’m making isn’t about shipping times, but about people still making a lot of purchases from amazon regularly. You’re now saying that you were buying something from amazon often enough to say that their shipping problems have been continuous, so I’m assuming you’ve been giving them your money every month, not including your prime subscription.
Also, as someone else mentioned, amazon actually makes most of their money from AWS, not through sales.
AWS will live for a very long time, no matter what happens to the retail business.
I’m not a fan of Amazon’s business practices, but when I was stationed overseas with the US military for 8+ years, they were the fastest and most reliable way for me to order supplies from back home, so my wife and I got a Prime account for the benefits. We could get our goods in about a week, as opposed to 2-3 weeks for a regular account.
Now I’m recently retired, living back home in the US, and I’d like to give up our Prime account, but there’s apparently a distribution warehouse near our home, so every time I order something, it asks if I want it delivered within the next few hours. Goddamn, that’s better home delivery service than Walmart in my area! That makes it very difficult to give up.
My wife and I generally vote with our money. If we don’t approve of a company, then we refuse to spend money on them. But Amazon is, unfortunately, one service we haven’t cut off yet. Maybe one day.
Just AWS and Amazon logistics alone are going to keep them in business a long time
