Amazon is testing a delivery service "Amazon Prime Now" with a minimum of 1 hour

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Amazon that expands on-the-day delivery service even in the home country, how delivered in one hour from what order "Amazon Prime Now"I am testing.

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Wall Street Journal(WSJ) reports that Amazon is testing a service "Amazon Prime Now" that delivers goods within one to two hours using bicycles in New York, USA. By using so-called messenger (bicycle service), Amazon Prime Now realizes the explosive delivery greatly exceeding the "hurry on the day" by only the users of the Manhattan area. According to WSJ, Amazon Prime Now will charge a fee of 8.99 dollars (about 1000 yen) and Amazon fee member will charge a fee of $ 5.99 (about 720 yen). However, according to stakeholders familiar with the service, Amazon Prime Now is currently running a test with a fee of $ 5 (about 600 yen), and if the person who can wait for two hours or more is charged the commission is freeThe Verge tells us.

BySatish Krishnamurthy

Amazon has ever beenTake a taxiOr,Open a real shopWe have repeatedly tried to expand the choice of delivery method by letting it do. Under such circumstances it seems that bicycle flight was judged to be the best if it is a crowded city like Manhattan. For Amazon, however, it will automatically deliver all within 30 minutes automaticallyDrone deliveryIt is the ultimate goal.

Amazon is a unmanned airplane and you can deliver it to your home in 30 minutes from your order "Amazon Prime Air" is well understood Summary - GIGAZINE


But in AmericaFederal Aviation Administration(FAA) 's aviation regulation has become an obstacle and the drone delivery plan is not going as I think. For this reason, Amazon has requested FAA to ease air regulation for drone, and it is a menaceful threat that "if the test does not proceed without regulation being relaxed, transfer development base from the United States to overseas" WSJ reported that he had confirmed such a final notice. In addition, Amazon has already started experiments on drone delivery in Cambridge, England, where there are no special restrictions as long as certain conditions such as circumventing the airport area and civilian population area against the Drone flight experiments, and relocation of development bases Cambridge is considered to be strong as a destination.

Although it improves the quality of delivery services steadily Amazon, we have not relaxed attacks in other service areas. The other day, I decided to cut down the price of cloud service AWS drastically and it depends on separating the cloud services of the other companies that I follow, as mentioned in the article.

Data transmission transfer from Amazon EC 2 and S3 is reduced by 43% at maximum, and transfer from AWS to CloudFront is free - GIGAZINE


Also, in collaboration with Sony Pictures on December 9, 2014Distribution of streaming movies of 4K qualityAnnounced that it will start. Prime members in the USA can pay at no additional costSpidermanYaGodzillaIt will be able to enjoy with 4K high image quality.

In addition, at Amazon.com on the Internet mail order, a function that users can negotiate price cuts with merchandisers "Make an OfferAnnounced. By clicking the Make an Offer button, you can negotiate discounts by telling the purchasing intention that you want to buy this price, but the seller accepts within 72 hours · refuses · suggests new price etc. Initially it is restricted to products such as art goods and sports related collector goods, and in 2015 it is scheduled to expand to 150,000 items.

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