All Things Amazon

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Shares of Amazon closed today at 2,891.93, a gain of 128.59 (4.65%), but fell in after-hours trading to 2,611.51, a drop of 280.42 (9.70%).

Amazon stock plunges as growth slows | CNN Business

Amazon's stock plummeted after the company reported on Thursday slowing growth and higher costs in its latest quarter and offered a disappointing revenue outlook.

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Amazon takes $7.6 billion loss on Rivian stake after EV company's stock plunge

After seeing its Rivian investment gain by $12 billion in the fourth quarter, Amazon had to mark its stake down dramatically due to a slump this year.

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Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service will launch in Lockeport, a small unincorporated community in San Joaquin County, California. Amazon is building a new facility there. A five-foot-diameter drone will deliver packages of up to five pounds to people's backyards. Umm.....what if you live in an apartment?

Amazon to start drone delivery service in California - GPS World

Amazon customers in Lockeford, California, will be among the first to receive Prime Air drone deliveries in the United States, later this year. According to an Amazon blog, the company has been working for almost a decade to make it a reality. Customers in Lockeford will see Prime Air-eligible...

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[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service will launch in Lockeport, a small unincorporated community in San Joaquin County, California. Amazon is building a new facility there. A five-foot-diameter drone will deliver packages of up to five pounds to people's backyards. Umm.....what if you live in an apartment?

Amazon to start drone delivery service in California - GPS World

Amazon customers in Lockeford, California, will be among the first to receive Prime Air drone deliveries in the United States, later this year. According to an Amazon blog, the company has been working for almost a decade to make it a reality. Customers in Lockeford will see Prime Air-eligible...

www.gpsworld.com

They have balconies.

 

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Some do. Many don't. And would a drone be able to get close enough to drop a package onto a balcony without smashing into a wall or a sliding glass door?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Some do. Many don't. And would a drone be able to get close enough to drop a package onto a balcony without smashing into a wall or a sliding glass door?

Or steer clear of the anti-pigeon defences such as nets and those whirly things on the rails?

I would think they would need an old fashioned delivery service as backup.

 

[HecticArt]

What could possibly go wrong?

 

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There are evildoers known as "porch pirates" who steal unattended packages off people's porches. They prefer large packages, which presumably contain merchandise that is more expensive. Sometimes they even follow Amazon drivers on their routes. But they would never watch to see where a drone goes, would they? They would never steal a package from someone's backyard, would they?

Would they?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

There are evildoers known as "porch pirates" who steal unattended packages off people's porches. They prefer large packages, which presumably contain merchandise that is more expensive. Sometimes they even follow Amazon drivers on their routes. But they would never watch to see where a drone goes, would they? They would never steal a package from someone's backyard, would they?

Would they?

All they need is another drone.

 

[HecticArt]

Or a BB gun.

 

[sadchild]

"PULL!"

*BLAM*

"This drone disappeared over the trees and I was cleaning [my gun] ... I loaded my [20-gauge] shotgun and took the safety off, and this thing came flying over my trees. I don’t know if they lost command or if they didn’t have good command, but the wind had picked up. It came over my airspace, 25 or 30 feet above my trees, and hovered for a second. I blasted it to smithereens."

Woman shoots drone: “It hovered for a second and I blasted it to smithereens.”

Virginian used 20-gauge shotgun against offending aircraft thought to be paparazzi.

arstechnica.com

 

[scotchandcigar]

"PULL!"

*BLAM*

"This drone disappeared over the trees and I was cleaning [my gun] ... I loaded my [20-gauge] shotgun and took the safety off, and this thing came flying over my trees. I don’t know if they lost command or if they didn’t have good command, but the wind had picked up. It came over my airspace, 25 or 30 feet above my trees, and hovered for a second. I blasted it to smithereens."

Woman shoots drone: “It hovered for a second and I blasted it to smithereens.”

Virginian used 20-gauge shotgun against offending aircraft thought to be paparazzi.

arstechnica.com

You can see the same thing in half of the political ads in the US.

 

[HecticArt]

It would suck watching the camera on your expensive drone and seeing someone on the ground, the muzzle flash, and then the ground, only to be followed up by seeing boots and the kill shot.

 

[scotchandcigar]

This new Amazon service is so confounding, it makes my head explode trying to make sense of it. Amazon will send one of their runners into a mall store to purchase items for you, so that you don't have to actually get off your ass and walk into a mall yourself. They claim it's giving you the "virtual mall experience".

 

[Wolf]

This new Amazon service is so confounding, it makes my head explode trying to make sense of it. Amazon will send one of their runners into a mall store to purchase items for you, so that you don't have to actually get off your ass and walk into a mall yourself. They claim it's giving you the "virtual mall experience".

I thought the video explained it pretty well. I guess those stores will be on Amazon, you basically buy an outfit and get it delivered that day.

I wonder how much of a percentage cut are they going to take from the store? and probably one day hurt them. Give it time, Amazon will probably buy the malls.

Hell, they have apps you buy liquor and somebody will pick it up for you. Probably Uber and whoever else will probably take on Amazon and deliver clothes, gadgets, etc. to your house. Unfortunately today new generation are already lazy and don't want to get off there ass and do things for themselves.

 

[sadchild]

Amazon will probably buy the malls.

They have been ... but after they close, using them as warehouses.

Amazon helped kill shopping malls. Now it’s buying them.

"I see articles about Amazon building here and Amazon building there. I’m not sure any of us really fully understand the implications because it’s happening so so fast,” the resident of one such neighborhood said.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[scotchandcigar]

I thought the video explained it pretty well. I guess those stores will be on Amazon, you basically buy an outfit and get it delivered that day.

I understand the video. What I don't understand is how I'm getting the "mall experience" by avoiding the mall, or how turning the mall into an Amazon app is somehow good for malls.

 

[HecticArt]

They have been ... but after they close, using them as warehouses.

Amazon helped kill shopping malls. Now it’s buying them.

"I see articles about Amazon building here and Amazon building there. I’m not sure any of us really fully understand the implications because it’s happening so so fast,” the resident of one such neighborhood said.

www.nbcnews.com

We had a mall that died a dozen years ago. It got leveled and Zon built a new distribution center there. Its close to the turnpike and my favorite Indian restaurant.

 

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The protective cover on subscription copies of the October 2022 issue of MAD has a list of "Articles we rejected for this issue." Among them are "Pipe cleaners & other poor surgery tools," "50 ways Luigi has planned to kill his brother Mario" and "Fun things McDonald's employees snuck into the President's Happy Meals."

One of the supposedly "rejected" articles is too true to be funny: "The four items in the world Amazon.com doesn't sell."

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

This new Amazon service is so confounding, it makes my head explode trying to make sense of it. Amazon will send one of their runners into a mall store to purchase items for you, so that you don't have to actually get off your ass and walk into a mall yourself. They claim it's giving you the "virtual mall experience".

Sounds like something my wife is addicted to called "Instacart". Virtual shopping.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I understand the video. What I don't understand is how I'm getting the "mall experience" by avoiding the mall, or how turning the mall into an Amazon app is somehow good for malls.

The sale is done by the retailer in the mall so that is good for them is it not?