US EditionAmazon's Targeting 4,000 More Towns for Faster Prime Delivery This Year
- Amazon revealed plans on Tuesday to extend its same-day and next-day shipping services in 2025 to include over four thousand smaller towns, villages, and rural areas throughout the United States.
- In April, Amazon announced plans to invest over $4 billion by 2026 to significantly expand its delivery network, focusing on enhancing service in rural areas where many logistics providers have scaled back due to high costs.
- Amazon has begun offering faster delivery in more than 1,000 smaller communities with encouraging early feedback and is transforming some rural delivery facilities into multifunctional hubs to support various services.
- The company reported delivering more than 9 billion items faster in 2024, and CEO Doug Herrington said customers in places like Monmouth, Iowa will now have "the same fantastic Amazon customer experience" as urban areas.
- The expansion is expected to benefit tens of millions of customers, reduce delivery times significantly, create about 170 new delivery jobs, and transform daily life for rural Americans with faster, reliable access to essentials.
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Amazon is taking on Walmart's rural dominance with its latest delivery push
Amazon is expanding its reach into smaller cities and towns across the US — areas where Walmart often has an established presence.AmazonAmazon said it's adding more than 4,000 "smaller" communities to its same-day and next-day delivery service.The move challenges Walmart, which can deliver from its more than 4,600 stores.Morgan Stanley analysts estimate US rural retail spending to be worth more than $1 trillion a year.The battle between the worl…
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