Amazon released a service called Amazon Prime Now, it allows for prime users to receive a free 2 hour delivery of many products in many areas. Amazon Prime Now has many of the same products that the regular Amazon has and most of the products are equal or slightly more than the same product on the regular Amazon. The minimum order has to be 20$ but there are a lot of promo codes (10$ of your first purchase and free cookies are some of the current ones check their website for current ones). You can track your package directly from their app or receive text alerts. Amazon Prime Now does not work in all areas but they are currently expanding their delivery range. There are currently 28 “hubs” in all of the metropolitan areas and that number is growing. There is also a restaurant option similar to GrubHub and Postmates were someone will get your ordered food from a restaurant and bring it to you. When I tried it out I was incredibly impressed, it is so fun to be able to order something and then in 1 hour have it come. Here are some videos explaining how it works and testing it out: (There are more articles below the videos)

Golden Tickets

Amazon Prime Now now has released a new promotion, golden tickets. “They may not have won a trip to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, but hundreds of lucky Amazon Prime Now customers did find golden tickets in their deliveries recently as part of a promotion by the retail giant.

As a way of saying thank you to Prime members during the holiday season, Amazon handed out prizes across the United States ranging from free dinner via Amazon Restaurants to free plane tickets. The aim was to reward customers with experiences that they could enjoy with all the time they were saving by using Prime and avoiding trips to the store.

Actress Lea Michele, famous for her role on the Fox television series “Glee,” even got in on the act and did a surprise delivery. The moment was captured on Michele’s Instagram account, as she said she surprised some guy named Mitch with his golden ticket.

Prime Now will be operating until 11:59 p.m. on Christmas Eve to help extra-last-minute shoppers get a gift under the tree or secure more food and drink for a holiday party. The service provides fast delivery on tens of thousands of items via its website and mobile app. Two-hour delivery is free and one-hour delivery is available for $7.99.

For what it’s worth, if your Prime Now bag doesn’t make you a winner, you can get a Willy Wonka chocolate bar wrapper (without chocolate?) and Golden Ticket replica on Amazon for $5.25 and it will arrive before Christmas.”(Schlosser, 2016)

Original Article: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/golden-tickets-amazon-prime-now-bags-reward-hundreds-customers-free-stuff/

Staying Open LateAmazon Prime Now

“Last minute shoppers, stay home.

That’s the message from Amazon, which is pushing its Prime Now rush delivery service as a way to lure shoppers who would normally head to physical stores in the last days or hours before Christmas, which coincides with the start of Hanukkah this weekend.

The service, part of the company’s $99 per year Prime offering, offers guaranteed delivery on items within two hours. This year, Amazon is extending that window to a time most should be at home counting their sugar plums. Prime Now customers in 30 U.S. cities can procrastinate until 9:45 pm local time Saturday for delivery by midnight Christmas Day.

As Amazon turns up its bid for these shoppers, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers such as Best Buy and Staples have followed with their own same-day delivery options, with the advantage of physical stores throughout the U.S.

“It puts a little more stress on traditional brick and mortar stores, local and the big box mass retailers,” says MaryAnn Monforte, professor of accounting practice at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management. “Because when you’re competing with a service like Amazon you need to be able to meet or beat their hours.”

With no stores of its own, Amazon’s approach is to create hubs in Prime Now cities. These look more like warehouses and are in places you wouldn’t expect. The Manhattan hub, for example, isn’t a warehouse but a 40,000 square-foot floor of an office building on 34th street in midtown, right down the block from Macy’s famous New York store.

The service is one way Amazon is trying to speed up the shopping experience.

Fresh flowers and cases of drinks sit alongside each other inside Amazon’s Prime Now New York City hub. (Photo: Eli Blumenthal, USA TODAY)

Last week the company announced it had completed its first consumer delivery by drone. Earlier this month, it revealed plans for a radical new grocery store where customers can walk in and just take the items they need, no lines or checkout process required.

Prime Now has spread to over 40 cities around the world since its launch in New York two years ago and added 10 in the U.S. in the last year.

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“Amazon clearly has data that shows that the faster you get your stuff the more stuff you buy,” says Avi Greengart, research director at Current Analysis. “It is a corporate priority to relentlessly improve delivery time.”

Expect more Prime Now options in the U.S. Stephenie Landry, vice president of the Prime Now division, says she “doesn’t see growth stopping.”

Amazon says it keeps roughly 25,000 different items in the New York hub, ranging from fruits and vegetables to canned goods, diapers, Amazon tablets and video game consoles.

A stockpile of Nintendo NES Classic video game systems in Amazon’s Prime Now New York hub. (Photo: Eli Blumenthal, USA TODAY)

Some items such as the Amazon Echo smart speaker and Nintendo’s NES Classic video game system, hot sellers that are currently hard to find, can also be found on Prime Now. Amazon keeps supply for Prime Now deliveries separate from traditional Amazon orders, a potential bright spot for folks looking for an Echo or NES Classic that many not be available from Amazon online, though these in-demand items can move fast. When the NES Classic briefly appeared on the site on Thursday morning, it disappeared in minutes.

In its Prime Now hubs, lined with cabinets and shelving units nearly wall to wall, the company relies on a bar code system to monitor inventory and let staff quickly grab items, which are often placed anywhere there is free space. This process, which Landry describes as “organized chaos,” leads to the unlikely pairing of an Xbox One rechargeable battery in a cabinet next to a bottle of Frank’s RedHot hot sauce. Scanners carried by the workers guide them to the fastest route to grab the products they need.

Consumers have shown if retailers let them shop at the last minute, they will.

“In many years the biggest shopping day is not Black Friday, it’s the day before Christmas,” says Greengart.” (Blumenthal, 2016)

Read the Original Article Here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/12/22/last-minute-shopper-amazon-prime-now-rush-christmas/95742684/

Inside Houstons Hub

In northwest Houston, there’s a warehouse stocked with thousands upon thousands of items exclusively for Amazon Prime members.

You can find every day items like diapers and toilet paper, but they have so much more. They have groceries, pantry goods, and plenty of gift options like toys and electronics – even gift wrapping.

But this is not just any Amazon warehouse. It’s the only Houston area Amazon Prime Now facility. You can get any of these items delivered to your door within two hours.

“It’s so easy. You write your zip code and you see you can track your package from door-to-door,” Lauren Lynch of Amazon Prime Now said.

This is for the ultimate procrastinator. You need the Amazon Prime Now app. It’s different form the Amazon app. It will guarantee that you will get your items within two hours. You can also get it within an hour., but you have to pay $7.99 for that. You have until midnight on Christmas Eve to get toys, bottled water and whatever you need to make it happen.

As soon as workers get those orders, they fill them and get them loaded up within the Prime Now window. It’s just one less hassle for the holidays.

There is a free 30 day trial to test out Amazon Prime Now.” (Lopez, 2016)

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When you have to get shopping done;)

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Read some more articles

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/amazon-deliver-packages-2-hours-watch-track-order-prime-now-hub-doorstep/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/12/22/last-minute-shopper-amazon-prime-now-rush-christmas/95742684/

http://fortune.com/video/2016/12/22/amazons-prime-now/?xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/golden-tickets-amazon-prime-now-bags-reward-hundreds-customers-free-stuff/

http://abc13.com/shopping/a-look-inside-the-amazon-prime-now-facility/1669296/

http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/amazon-prime-now-when-you-positively-absolutely-have-to-get/article_7f62cadc-c910-11e6-9bba-afb7ac1d8cfd.html

Bibliography/Sources

Golden Tickets:

Schlosser, Kurt. “Golden Tickets in Amazon Prime Now Bags Reward Hundreds of Customers with Free Stuff.” GeekWire. GeekWire, 15 Dec. 2016. Web. 23 Dec. 2016.

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Staying Open Late:

Blumenthal, Eli. “Christmas Eve Shopper? Amazon Has Something to Sell.” USA Today. Gannett Satellite Information Network, 22 Dec. 2016. Web. 23 Dec. 2016.

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Inside Houstons Hub:

Lopez, Patricia. “A Look inside the Amazon Prime Now Facility.” ABC13 Houston. ABC, 22 Dec. 2016. Web. 23 Dec. 2016.

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When you have to get shopping done;):

GILLIGAN, GREGORY J. “Amazon Prime Now: When You Positively Absolutely Have to Get Your Shopping Done.” The Daily Progress. N.p., 23 Dec. 2016. Web. 23 Dec. 2016.

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