More than 1, 000 merchants participate in Free Shipping Day, which is Monday, December 17, 2012.
Not editorially -- Tim and Eric and Alexia and Luddy and Victor have that end on lockdown -- but the kind of design and engineering strategy to take things to the next level, and the resources capable of shipping day in and day out, continuously iterating and improving one pixel and one commit at a time.
Earlier this week the possibility that Amazon was moving to a next day shipping standard with the pending arrival of same day shipping prompted a piece on how home improvement retailers better watch out.
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To be sure, perhaps this is a logistics situation, where there are simply too many new iPhones to be delivered in one day, so Apple is giving its shipping partners an early day of leeway.
The free two-day shipping is a terrible temptation for impulse buyers, however, as Amazon is only too aware.
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With the lightweight Chrome OS, Chromebooks should be shipping with all day battery life, especially when targeted toward students.
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Instead of one- or two-day shipping, items arrive in five to 10 days.
Earlier this month the company launched eBay Now, a new same day shipping service that enables people to get products delivered from local retailers.
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Because I am an Amazon Prime member, I get free 2-day shipping and Amazon is still not collecting California sales tax, which I am supposed to pay on my own.
These include a special site on which to shop, guaranteed free next day shipping, a VIP phone number to call for customer service, as well as an exclusive online outfit-builder tool.
There's no indication that free two-day shipping or streaming video will be coming to Russia anytime soon, but the ereader market seems as good a place as any to start a quest for dominance.
Instead of bombarding potential customers with lots of deals every day, each site only offers two deals a day, products are in stock with same-day shipping, and products are highlighted in a way that showcases their boutique-quality.
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John Sheehan, the 31-year-old co-founder of a San Francisco software startup, says he will use Google Shopping Express for 10% to 20% of the purchases he would otherwise make through Amazon, which only offers two-day shipping in the city.
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He buried Jimmy under a flurry of new reprint proposals, writing one up every other day and shipping the nominated texts west.
Bluegape has been able to grow with only a 20, 000 dollar investment, and is now shipping over 300 orders a day.
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The Fire began shipping on Monday, a day early, while the Touch and Touch 3G were shipped Tuesday, six days early.
At 330, 000 barrels of oil a day, PDVSA is shipping twice as much as a year ago.
Both tablets will arrive October 26th, the day Windows 8 starts shipping.
Intel management indicated during the recent earnings call that the PC industry is now shipping over 1 million PCs a day, which suggests additional upside to our global PC market forecast.
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But, from now on, any app uploaded through the developer portal will be ready and available on day one when it starts shipping to Kickstarter backers on March 28th.
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It also manufactures and sells the Kindle e-reader and strives to offer customers the lowest prices possible through low every day product pricing and free shipping offers, including through membership in Amazon Prime.
The free-shipping program is meant to put more coins into day-to-day use.
The OUYA Tegra 3-powered Android game console is having quite a day, but now that it's shipping, CEO Julie Uhrman is informing early recipients of what to expect when they open the packaging.
Microsoft will start shipping its Surface tablet line on October 26, the same day it will officially launch Windows 8, the company disclosed in its 10-K filing with the SEC for the June 2012 fiscal year.
The privately held Las Vegas company (whose name comes from the Spanish word for shoe) gets raves from shoe lovers for its fast, free shipping--90% of orders arrive the next business day--and a 365-day return policy that allows footwear fans to order a bunch of shoes, try them on and return those that don't suit or fit.
In the Sept. 12 issue of Forbes, I write about Blu Homes, a Massachusetts startup that makes green prefab houses that fold up in the factory for shipping and are unfolded on site and bolted to a foundation in a day (see video at end of this post).
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Amazon can service the continental U.S. with 2-day ground delivery, not having to rely on more expensive air shipping.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, TNP makes up 4.13% of the Guggenheim Shipping ETF ( AMEX: SEA) which is trading relatively unchanged on the day Monday.
But each day its 226 offices in 70 countries keep track of 3, 000 shipping containers and 2 million pounds of airfreight as it moves jeans for Gap, laptops for Hewlett-Packard and phones for Motorola.
Multiple established commercial shipping routes going through the reef mean that dozens of ships going through the reef each day.
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