shipping
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Amazon Might Try Shipping Things Out Before You Even Buy Them
The Wall Street Journal unearthed a recently filed Amazon patent for “anticipatory shipping”, a setup where the products you buy start travelling to your nearest shipping hub before you’ve clicked the purchase button. Welcome to the future, folks.
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Same-Day Delivery Is Great For Everybody… Except The Deliverers
We’ve already adjusted to the consumer utopia of buying just about everything online with a single click, but waiting for it to show up is still the hardest part. eBay Now pulled it off in a few places, and it’s not easy; just ask the couriers who are making it happen.
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Leap Motion CEO Responds To Gizmodo: We Mistakenly Charged Aussies The GST
Leap Motion is one of very few products that we’re genuinely excited to get our hands on. Early reports say that the Leap Motion takes motion control to the next level, and from the teaser video, you can see why. It’s an incredible gadget, so you can imagine how disappointed we were when we saw…
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What If Amazon Did Yesterday Shipping?
Recent news suggests that Amazon is planning to launch same-day shipping in the US — a first for online retail and perhaps the end of local stores as we know them. But what if Amazon worked out how to bend physics and developed yesterday shipping?