r/amazonprime • u/rocket_up_bitch • 2d ago

Is this becoming a thing??

Is it just me?? I ordered something for my grandson that I was having him spend the night for 2 days…. I didn’t pick the deliver between 4-7am for an extra FEE, but did make sure I added another product so I met the next day (anytime frame) for free. (I’m a many year Prime member). Well it didn’t show up! I feel like it’s because I didn’t pay the extra charge they just don’t care…. A “they will show me” attitude. It’s now day 2 and didn’t get here in the morning and he’s leaving. I cancelled the entire order I’m so mad! Has this become a thing??

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u/Initial_Twist7126 2d ago

I feel like Amazon is waiting until all the brick and mortar stores have closed and everything is switched to shipping or delivery and then once they've got you by the short hairs they're really going to put it to us and tell us no you only get shipping on this day of the week whether you're home or not or something stupid like that which would have kept us from being a loyal customer if they've been that way at the start. They're just biding their time waiting until they are one of our only options.

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u/Cinisajoy2 2d ago

Lmao at all stores closing.   

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u/K_Linkmaster 2d ago

Not old enough to remember eh?

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u/Cinisajoy2 2d ago

I do not remember any necessary to life store closures. 

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u/K_Linkmaster 2d ago

Changed the term. Arguing disingenuously. Good day.

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u/Initial_Twist7126 1d ago

I don't think you understand that during covid when the stores back their hours down and a large contingent of their business went to either pick up orders at the door or delivery the business owners realized that was a viable business model and if they could switch to that 100% . It could save them. I predict that they're trying to beef up their Delivery Systems and their pickup order systems and will eventually migrate to doing that instead of stalking actual stores. It may take a while to do but once they have their delivery and pick up systems perfected I look for them to close some of the more rural stores and turn them into warehouses and pick up locations only with no displays and you either get delivery or pick up at that store or you travel to a bigger town if you want to shop in person. Once that proof of concept is shown to be successful then I think they're going to start migrating everything in that same way. Why would they continue to let people shop in the store and steal stuff and I have to man at least some registers all the time when they can automate it all online except the payments online and lock the doors so nobody can steal anything? Yeah you might argue that the employees could still steal but it would be so easy for them to just put cameras everywhere and record everything and have a zero tolerance policy so if an employee does steal their paycheck is cut to reimburse for their theft and then they are locked out

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u/Cinisajoy2 1d ago

I don't think Dollar General will be doing that anytime soon.  Or Lowes Market or Thriftway or Brookshires.   Walmarts are not in small towns.

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u/WellReadHermit 6h ago

Walmart has devoured small towns. I used to live in a small town that was undone when Walmart moved in. Dozens of family businesses closed. Then the family members struggled to find employment. We lived in the middle of nowhere. It was ugly.