Amazon to Have Same-Day Delivery Soon: Will the E-Commerce Giant Destroy Local Retail?

Most stores I buy online from get it to me immediately as is....

You don't get it do you. Amazon provides Competition..... Competition builds better retail and wholesale. Makes it all more honest. Wal-Marts the same way...... The Marxist Unionists seem to want to keep total control/ They do not help the worker and more they just keep[ the promise going but LIE like a Rug......

I think they will destroy places like Best Buy, Barnes and Noble ect. because as the post mentioned, they will have a tax advantage. local retail shops won't be able to compete with. If Best Buy and Barnes and Noble were wise, they would contract their merchandise out to Amazon so they can serve as pick up hubs. They already have the storefronts. If you can't beat them, join them!

Best Buy is overpriced, I go to Costco and always do better. Barnes and Noble is also over priced I go to Half priced books and find plenty of variety.

There are many things people don't want to buy without being able to see it first.

It becomes annoyingly difficult when trying to return an online item.

Besides, 2 day and next day shipping are already pricy. Depending on what you are buying, you can pay double or more the price of the item in the expedited shipping. Is this going to be even worse?

plenty of people will always like to go shopping at retail stores

But I love amazon

E-commerce is the future. I already use amazon for almost all of my purchases. That being said, they won't literally destroy local retail, they will just make local retail evolve.

I feel the same. Really the only way the will destroy retail is if a particular retail chain fails to change. You have to be a step ahead because it takes years to implement changes effectively. If a business is just changing as a reactionary measure to competion instead of from true vision, thats the end!

CAPITALISM NEEDS COMPETITION It is good for Business and Great for Customer Service.
Other Companies will either pick up on the new methods or technology or be left in the dust. The winner is the consumer

People like seeing what they're about to buy in first person instead of a picture of those products. We skim through books looking for the appetizing ones, look at food to make sure it's new and hasn't been damaged, we try on clothes to make sure they fit, we test furniture looking for the right furniture, and so on. You can't do all that when you shop online.

Wal Mart is destroying small business. Amazon is destroying big business...

please.

PRAISE GOD FOR WALMART and for refusing to join the STUPID STINKING UNIONS

I love Walmart and i told Corporate Offices that if they ever go Union I would never shop with them again but would buy on-line.

When I was in Retail, I worked both sides Union and Management and I HATE UNIONS

I only shop online for things that aren't readily available in local stores.

I'm sure S&H; will be outrageous!



But dang! It may be cheaper than sales tax!

No, they won't do that,but they are already putting a hurting on the old fashioned big box stores,already helping to kick Borders and Circuit City to the curb. The next likely one to disappear will probably be Best Buy,especially if Amazon can do a buy today,get it today,kind of service!

But it might shoot up on the online shopping scale

I'd still like to have that "hans-on" experience before buying something. Besides there's a lot of loyalty associated with local stores.

When Amazon says same day delivery they mean two to 7 days from now.

Remember hearing about people paying like 10 bucks extra for next day delivery and them not getting it for a week. Just suck it up and wait instead of wasting your money.

Warehousing and shipping cost real money, companies like Amazon have had advantage of offering a large inventory of goods without having to pay to store and handle them. The more like retailers they become, the more they will be subject to the financial limitations of retailers.

I guess the question is how much difference will faster shipping make to sales? Will they make enough extra sales to justify the extra cost?

The cost for same-day delivery will presumably be MUCH higher than for normal or normal-express, so it might have some benefit for certain things (expensive, heavy) or for people who use mail order because they don't live near stores. It's certainly not going to have any effect at all on people who don't have computers.

Unless the cost relates to savings (Sales Tax), it won't destroy local shopping.

As moves to regulate the net and track people using it grow, it might even backfire.

Ultimately, consumers have the power to make or break any retailer. A business like Amazon only exists because consumers enjoy their services. If other business don't adapt they fail.

Sounds more expensive than driving to a store.

some yes some no...... also I think same day delivery might be a bit impractical since they dont have the same stuff in every warehouse

great for us old folks who don't get out much..got my ceiling fan in 2 days 7 days later it's up and running!!!

Personally I shop online because I hate actually shopping at stores... But a lot of people that I know say that they prefer to go out and shop. They're crazy!

i believe so yes because of how cheap you can find things on the internet

IT WILL PUT A DENT IN IT, BUT NOT TAKE IT OVER....

People [some people] like to shop. Amazon is for some who just use it as a convenience and a comparative shopper such as myself. There will always be a need for retail stores. But now they can't charge higher for the convenience because of an immediate need.

not for me !1

Hopefully.

Cut into their market share, yes. Destroy, hardly... unless teleportation becomes a reality.

No it won't

The local retailers were already destroyed by the big box stores. Turnabout.

Plus I get next minute delivery on my kindle.

that and ebooks. Im guilty of having a kindle yes, but i have that so i can watch movies and have books on hand wherever i go. Our bookstores are shutting down and aside from one vintage record store you pretty much have to stick to best buy, walmart or target for cds and they pretty much all suck if you don't like mainstream music. It has become less about the choice of where you want to shop and more lack of choices. I know thats how it is where i live and I know it was the same way in the last place i visit. I went into a music (instrument) shop in covington georgia and asked a girl where bookstores and music shops were in town and she she said "they closed them all". They had one used book store and that was it. I can't stand it. oh and you can't find old movies (and I'm talking most movies going from 97 and back in stores because best buy doesn't carry films back that far. they say they don't sell. wtf

10,000 new jobs in California's alright with me.

It already is destroying local retail.

I don't care one way or another. I love Amazon and I order everything from there except food products

I buy a lot of stuff I can't find locally online. But when it comes to things I can find locally amazon is not my go to... the local store is.

I do think that it's time for retail store to disapear, online store provide better price and service. It's just Darwinian after all, the best survive. And objectively look at what store do now, you get into the store nobody can help you find stuff and you have the choice between waiting in line at or self checkout... Like they have you do the job of the cashier now!!!