{"id":1666,"date":"2013-08-31T19:28:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T19:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2013-08-31T19:28:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T19:28:27","slug":"my-experience-with-amazon-fresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2013\/08\/my-experience-with-amazon-fresh\/","title":{"rendered":"My experience with Amazon Fresh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fresh<\/a><\/p>\n

TL;DR: it\u2019s so good it freaks me out a bit.<\/p>\n

So Amazon started this summer to deliver food too. All the food. They also partner with local stores.<\/p>\n

Orders have to be above $35 and the fee a year is $220 (or $299 for non prime users). It stings, but for now free trial\u2026<\/p>\n

You can order for the next day and get delivery from before 7am to 9pm. I do before 7am because you wake up and you have your food waiting for you in green bags at the front door. Super neat. You only have to be present when you buy alcohol. They collect your old bags and that\u2019s it. Of course you can order stuff from traditional Amazon too so basically for the first time since the web exists, I have a one stop for everything at my fingertips, with delivery from next day to a couple of days later for non-fresh items<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I mean, it\u2019s sexy as hell. And we\u2019re only two using this service, I can\u2019t even imagine for a family of four how it would change your life. Did I mention that they keep your fresh items with frozen bottles of water that are given for free? Free water! I was sending them back at first. In 2050 people will be like \u201cremember when we were getting free water ordering from Amazon? Those were the days.\u201d<\/em> Prices are competitive with stores and they have deals and also deliver bulks (10 boxes of granola bars, BAM). Oh, and also once the delivery was 20 minutes late. Full refund. *that\u2019s what I\u2019m talking \u2018bout*<\/p>\n

Absolutely no one likes going for grocery shopping, it doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s close or far, with a car or on a bike. Amazon Fresh is a massive update in quality of life, no doubt about it (and that\u2019s why even if they don\u2019t make a lot of money today because of investments in trucks and fridges, they will). Of course, you can still hang around your favorite stores but it\u2019s no more a chore.<\/p>\n

But what about the future? I adore efficiency but I feel conflicted about how it destroys simple lives. I don\u2019t work in retail, automation doesn\u2019t dictate my life I\u2019m safe for a while but what about like, millions of people? How Amazon will deal with new local stores who want to enter the Biggest Store In The World? Will they be ignored, unable to sustain a local business and die because Amazon decided to pass on their services? What about delivery segregation creating more inequality?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see but you know what usually happens when a company finally has all the power.<\/em> For now though let\u2019s not get paranoid, Amazon Fresh is really good. I\u2019d pay that annual fee I think. Shopping anytime, anything, anywhere, with next day delivery? If I had a household with a kid, I would have already paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TL;DR: it\u2019s so good it freaks me out a bit. So Amazon started this summer to deliver food too. All the food. They also partner with local stores. Orders have to be above $35 and the fee a year is $220 (or $299 for non prime users). It stings, but for now free trial\u2026 You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}