Amazon: More Prime Deliveries Are Arriving Same-Day or Next-Day Than Ever
Are you seeing faster deliveries on Amazon Prime orders? The company says it hit its "fastest Prime speeds ever" in Q2, resulting in more same- and next-day deliveries for US customers.
“Across the top 60 largest US metro areas, more than half of Prime member orders arrived the same or next day,” says(Opens in a new window) Doug Herrington, Amazon CEO of Worldwide Stores.
For this year, the company has already delivered more than 1.8 billion units to US Prime(Opens in a new window) subscribers through the same-day or next-day shipping, a four times increase from 2019, when Amazon announced it wanted to make one-day shipping the standard.
Amazon Prime dates back to 2005. But at the time, it only offered free two-day shipping on over 1 million items. It has since expanded to 300 million products. "Tens of millions of the most popular items” can arrive with same- or next-day shipping via Amazon Prime, Herrington says.
That said, the accomplishment may stir up concerns about labor conditions at Amazon warehouses, where turnover can be high. But according to Herrington, the e-commerce giant has been increasing the shipping time by streamlining Amazon’s logistics networks into eight regional hubs, resulting in fewer handoffs and miles traveled for shipped products.
“It’s easy to assume the faster we deliver, the faster employees work—but that couldn’t be further from the truth. The speed improvements we’re making come primarily from placing products closer to customers,” he says. “The people picking, packing, and driving to your house are doing the exact same thing for orders that arrive the same or next day as orders that used to take two or three days.”
The streamlining has reduced injuries at warehouses, Amazon says.
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