That is somewhat impressive, it might make up for many people not getting two day delivery with Prime anymore. However there are an awful lot of generic drugs out there that are pretty cheap and you wind up paying $2.70 or something for them at the pharmacy after what insurance negotiates down and they contribute.
> ... it might make up for many people not getting two day delivery with Prime anymore.
They got rid of 2-day delivery? I've only see the reverse with most orders showing either free same day, free overnight (arrival by 8am), or free next-day.
At some point in the pandemic I remember Amazon talking about how people in certain urban areas would be getting faster service and almost immediately afterward they would promise to deliver in two days but it would really be two weeks.
Now AMZN usually claims I can get Prime shipping in 5 days and they seem to do that.
What's funny about it is that every other retailer has sped up their shipping in the past two years, frequently I get free or low-cost one-day shipping from retailers like Adorama, Best Buy, Walmart, etc. Lately I have been buying vintage electronics on Ebay and I find I get packages from Japan, China and the UK faster than I get them from the AMZN warehouse that is a four hour drive away.
My hunch is that if you have a Cheesecake Factory in your town you get 2-day or better shipping with Prime, if you don't you get something worse. If you have 2-day shipping you might decide to buy something online than at a bricks and mortar store. If you have to wait 5 days it is not hard at all to make a trip to a store. Bigger urban areas have a lot of competition for shopping, I think the shopping just sucks in a town like Ithaca and AMZN figures they don't need to try very hard.
I am not renewing Prime this year because it just isn't worth it.
If you don't have a cheesecake factory in your town, you are, as far as Amazon's employee demographic is concerned, unpeople. Prime efficiency has little to do with it.
