Pretty sensationalist article. The important parts are buried about halfway through:
> Amazon, he says, has a “radical sensitivity” to any suggestion that neighborhoods are being singled out by race. “Demographics play no role in it. Zero.”
> Amazon says its plan is to focus its same-day service on ZIP codes where there’s a high concentration of Prime members
The areas Amazon does same-day delivery are likely just driven by pure numbers and algorithms -- larger order counts/sums will result in a higher chance of same-day delivery to a certain area and low numbers for an area means it will get it later.
> Amazon, he says, has a “radical sensitivity” to any suggestion that neighborhoods are being singled out by race. “Demographics play no role in it. Zero.”
> Amazon says its plan is to focus its same-day service on ZIP codes where there’s a high concentration of Prime members
The areas Amazon does same-day delivery are likely just driven by pure numbers and algorithms -- larger order counts/sums will result in a higher chance of same-day delivery to a certain area and low numbers for an area means it will get it later.