Amazon is taking over the world. Slowly, but surely the internet giant is reaching all corners of the globe and is changing life as we know it. Ok, that may not be so true, but here’s all the reasons Amazon will one day rule the nation.
1. Amazon Prime. It’s free two-day shipping on millions of items. I can order something at 8pm on a Tuesday, and have it in my hands on Thursday. You do have to pay a yearly fee of $99 to get the free shipping, but in my opinion it’s worth it. I can personally say that Amazon loses a lot of money off of me and all my free shipping.
2. I challenge you to find someone without an Amazon account. It is probably pretty hard because Amazon reports having over 224 million active accounts. Soon, everyone will have an account and Amazon will be unstoppable.
3. If free two-day delivery wasn’t good enough, Amazon also has two-hour delivery depending on where you live. Right now this service is only available in about twenty different cities across America, but Amazon says they plan on extending it to more cities and towns in the near future.
4. Amazon is also your grocery store. With Amazon Fresh, they deliver all your groceries to your door, which means you can do all your grocery shopping for a week and never even put on pants.
5. They even have a home automation system. Her name is Alexa, and she is a small cylinder that listens to you and responds to your voice and commands. She can play music, order you a pizza, call an Uber, turn off and on your lights, and place your Starbucks Coffee mobile order.
6. They have actual stores now. The internet giant isn’t only on the world wide web, now they are in your local town as well. These aren’t just any stores though, in a way they recreated shopping. Their stores have no lines and you don’t even pay, you simply walk in and scan a barcode on your app. Once in the store, a sensor tracks everything you pick up and adds it to your virtual tab, and when you are done you just walk out and Amazon charges your account. That’s the abridged version, but these stores are mind blowing and going to one is on my bucket list (don’t judge me).
7. They own a lot more than you think. IMDb and Zappos are both owned by this internet giant.
8. They revolutionized the way we read. Amazon is well known for their e-readers called Kindles. Although there are hundreds of other versions on the market now, Amazon claims to be the first with this idea. It is estimated that Amazon accounts for over two thirds of electronic book sales in America. Amazon has also begun to open up its own book stores that carry books that have gotten over four stars in online ratings. Right now there are only a few locations, but one is opening in Dedham, Mass in 2017.
9. They make buying stupid easy. Amazon has recently come out with Dash Buttons that allow you to order a product with the click of a button, literally. These nifty devices stick on any surface and whenever you’re running low on that button’s item you simply hit it and it ships to your house in two days. These little buttons are all over my house – need more paper towels, hit the button, need more toilet paper, hit the button.
10. Amazon uses drones to deliver. They just launched a new program in England that uses completely automated air crafts to deliver packages in thirty minutes or less. If that’s not revolutionary, I don’t know what is.