Re: Amazon Prime -- Anyone use it?
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 5:11 pm
According to this page, there are 53 US Metropolitan Statistical Areas with a population over 1 million (estimated, as of 2016).
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I'd like to see Hartford get it, as that is the closest region to me on that list. Won't happen, though.ImLawBoy wrote:According to this page, there are 53 US Metropolitan Statistical Areas with a population over 1 million (estimated, as of 2016).
It does say "business friendly" so lets assume blue states need not apply. After all, here they were touting a whopping "$14 per hour" for warehouse drones...not the $15 per hour labor is pushing for.Kelric wrote:I'd like to see Hartford get it, as that is the closest region to me on that list. Won't happen, though.ImLawBoy wrote:According to this page, there are 53 US Metropolitan Statistical Areas with a population over 1 million (estimated, as of 2016).
Kodak had over 60,000 employees in/around Rochester during the 70s or 80s, which was about 15% of the workforce. We can assume that they won't be going anywhere for at least the next decade with a $5 billion investment in their HQ2, even with process improvements in automation and deep AI work. Depending on how they staff it (if it is mostly researchers/scientists, for example) then it may be two or three decades of stability.Jeff V wrote:It does say "business friendly" so lets assume blue states need not apply. After all, here they were touting a whopping "$14 per hour" for warehouse drones...not the $15 per hour labor is pushing for.Kelric wrote:I'd like to see Hartford get it, as that is the closest region to me on that list. Won't happen, though.ImLawBoy wrote:According to this page, there are 53 US Metropolitan Statistical Areas with a population over 1 million (estimated, as of 2016).
50,000 is a very large number for a single metro though. Is there anything comparable? It can be a dangerous thing for a local economy to be so reliant on a single business. A company I worked for used to virtually wipe out small towns after closing factories that were the only game in town. Illinois is known for offering sweet deals for companies to relocate here (Boeing and Miller-Coors come to mind) but even with a metro area of 9 million, 50K seems like a huge number to be tied to a single employer. And they already employ thousands here.
A city outside Atlanta is taking steps to create a brand new city in hopes of luring the company's planned new corporate hub to Georgia.
The Stonecrest City Council voted 4-2 on Monday to de-annex 345 acres of land if the Seattle-based e-commerce giant picks the area for what the company calls HQ2, a corporate hub which could lead to the creation of thousands of jobs.
Stonecrest's resolution asks the Georgia General Assembly to form the city of Amazon on the land, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Amazon drivers having access to your home? What could go wrong?“This is not an experiment for us,” said Peter Larsen, Amazon vice president of delivery technology, in an interview. “This is a core part of the Amazon shopping experience from this point forward.”
Members of Amazon’s Prime shopping club can pay $249.99 and up for a cloud-controlled camera and lock that the company offers to install. Delivery associates are told to ring a doorbell or knock when they arrive at someone’s house. If no one greets them, they press ‘unlock’ in a mobile app, and Amazon checks its systems in an instant to make sure the right associate and package are present.
The camera then streams video to the customer who remotely can watch the in-home delivery take place. The associate cannot proceed with other trips until the home is again locked.
Have you SEEN the folks Amazon hires for their courier service? I'm sure some of them are fine people.McNutt wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:15 pm Well, there would be video and a record that includes the identity of the person entering your home, so probably not as much unless they hire someone really stupid.
Pet escapes are going to be a thing. Pet bites probably too. Is there a rash of package thefts occurring that this is designed to prevent? Because really it seems to be inviting a lot of potential problems... though maybe it's worth it for the sweet comfort of knowing my precious HDMI cable is safe and secure inside my home.The Meal wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:28 pmHave you SEEN the folks Amazon hires for their courier service? I'm sure some of them are fine people.McNutt wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:15 pm Well, there would be video and a record that includes the identity of the person entering your home, so probably not as much unless they hire someone really stupid.
I want to see the inevitable videos of folks' pets going apeshit on these poor delivery folks.
No, every package will be hand-delivered by a 2017 model Bezos.The Meal wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:28 pmHave you SEEN the folks Amazon hires for their courier service? I'm sure some of them are fine people.McNutt wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:15 pm Well, there would be video and a record that includes the identity of the person entering your home, so probably not as much unless they hire someone really stupid.
I want to see the inevitable videos of folks' pets going apeshit on these poor delivery folks.
The real story here is that Amazon must have perfected unhackable network security. Because if not, I can tell you exactly what could go wrong.Moliere wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:09 pm Amazon To Sell Smart Locks So It Can Slip Packages Into Your Home
Amazon drivers having access to your home? What could go wrong?“This is not an experiment for us,” said Peter Larsen, Amazon vice president of delivery technology, in an interview. “This is a core part of the Amazon shopping experience from this point forward.”
Members of Amazon’s Prime shopping club can pay $249.99 and up for a cloud-controlled camera and lock that the company offers to install. Delivery associates are told to ring a doorbell or knock when they arrive at someone’s house. If no one greets them, they press ‘unlock’ in a mobile app, and Amazon checks its systems in an instant to make sure the right associate and package are present.
The camera then streams video to the customer who remotely can watch the in-home delivery take place. The associate cannot proceed with other trips until the home is again locked.
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How about a small home?Smoove_B wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:56 am If this new service would allow me to place a small secured shed on my property that an Amazon Delivery person would have full access to, I think I'd appreciate that type of delivery over the current USPS driver punting it out of her truck or trying to jam it in my mail box. But letting them in my house? No thanks.
I wonder if expanding into the ISP business is in a future business plan, especially with their web services business and being a major streaming content provider.Smoove_B wrote:I just checked...the nearest locker service available to me is about 40 miles away. I don't think I'm in their core demographic for that service. Really, I need Amazon to get into the ISP business.
Researchers from Rhino Security Labs found a way to disable the Amazon Cloud Cam, a crucial safeguard for the Amazon Key service that allows Prime members to remotely unlock their front doors for couriers and other chosen visitors. The hack could theoretically allow people to enter into Amazon-Key-protected domiciles without users realizing it.
Feudalism?Chicago has offered to let Amazon pocket $1.32 billion in income taxes paid by its own workers. This is truly perverse. Called a personal income-tax diversion, the workers must still pay the full taxes, but instead of the state getting the money to use for schools, roads or whatever, Amazon would get to keep it all instead.
“The result is that workers are, in effect, paying taxes to their boss,” says a report on the practice from Good Jobs First, a think tank critical of many corporate subsidies.
The woman who left her job at the post office earlier this year asked us not to reveal her identity, because postal workers sign forms promising never to talk to the media.
She told CBS46 her former supervisors at the post office gave her specific instructions to misrepresent delivery times because, she says, they know what's at stake if Amazon packages are late.
"At 7:15, whatever you have not delivered, pull your truck over to the side of the road and scan every single one of your amazon packages. We cannot have late packages because that will jeopardize our contract with Amazon," said the former mail carrier.