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Amazon will do same-day delivery on a bunch of stuff if you're in an area where it's available. You can order shit while you're at work and have it dropped off at your house by the time you're home without having to stop at a store.
I don't live where same-day is available, but even ordering for pickup at brick and mortar adds 20+ minutes to my commute. A few minutes out of the way, waiting at the store, and hitting multiple traffic lights both ways isn't a negligible amount of time.
How many things actually need to be delivered on the same day though?
A few years ago, my radiator decided to break in the middle of a cold snap. I could deal with it, but I had an elderly budgie, but since I don't have a car and I'm a weedy old lady, I had to order from Curry's (in the past I would have gone straight to Amazon). Luckily it arrived the same day, no delivery charge. Even then, I would have just used a hot water bottle next to my budgie's cage if the radiator hadn't come that day.
I'm not sure why I told that story. But in any case, it was definitely a better outcome than ordering some no name brand that Amazon is filled with.
I hear the "same day delivery" to justify Amazon a lot, but I do wonder how many things actually need next day delivery and how did such people survive before that? Are people not keeping track of what's running out? How many times would you need an emergency radiator replacement during a cold snap?
Of course I live in London and most things I need are walking distance or easily reachable by bus. So I have that on my side.
But yeah for me, the way they treat their staff, the way they protect bad faith sellers (see Louis rossman's videos on how they respond to reports of unsafe items), racketeering (stealing marketplace supplier info and undercutting, see pirate trading's tripods) means that as long as I have alternatives, even if they are also corpos, I will never willingly buy from scamazon again.
This was actually going to be my follow up question as well. It seems like some people are really into their same-day delivery but I've never felt the need for that. Probably because I've never experienced the convenience since I live in Okinawa which is a tiny island in Japan that didn't have an Amazon warehouse until last year.