I wouldn't categorize this as "news".
I mean it is years that the situation is as you describe, I don't feel it has worsened (let alone bettered) recently.
I mean it is years that the situation is as you describe, I don't feel it has worsened (let alone bettered) recently.
They were making noises about speeding up delivery to a lucky few people in chosen urban areas but in my rural area Prime shipping has slowed down considerably and they seem to make no effort at all to get Prime deliveries to me in two days. It is irksome because sometimes I've decided to buy something at Amazon rather than another store on the assumption I could get it in two days instead of two weeks, so it is an unfair form of anti-competition.
Contrast that to shipping having sped up for most other major retailers (say Best Buy, Walmart, ...) such that I often get things in one day with free or low cost shipping.
My falling out with AMZN started when I saw obviously fraudulent product listings and contacted AMZN only to be told they didn't care unless I had bought the product and been defrauded.
What they don't seem to get is that when they have this attitude it calls into question whether I can trust ANY product listings on AMZN.
I have this same problem, so I end up doing extra research both on and off amazon to try to be sure the product is legit. This boils down to time and work on my part, and when it gets to the point where I get frustrated or distracted, Amazon doesn't get a purchase from me. I suppose they're just too big and have too much momentum to care, but _eventually_ they will fall from their high position because they have become big and lazy.
For instance Best Buy wants to sell you a SATA SSD but they won't sell you the mounting bracket to mount it in a desktop computer or to adapt the molex power connector to the drive. They sell low end mirrorless cameras but don't have a significant collection of lenses.
I have a serious crafting programme but can find exactly one item at Michael's that I want because they are similarly opinionated.
Amazon stocks the products I want to buy but the consistency of their service is awful.
For me, prime has gotten better, with most items able to be delivered next day.
Thanks for the new material name!