The people who brought you humanoid and Gmail now want to bring tater chips and diapers right to your home with a new same-day sales pitch service.
Google denote Thursday that it is entering the same-day delivery fray. It rolled out obtain Express, a new service that’s kicking run into in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you’re lucky enough to be certain into the delivery beta, you’ll get free, unlimited same-day delivery for vi months. That’s six months of having toilet paper delivered for free. Now if only(prenominal) you could train your pets to open the door while you’re incapacitated.
Google is shortly accepting applications for beta testers (sign up here). If accepted, shoppers can order same-day delivery of goods from Target, Walgreens, Toys R Us, American Eagle, Staples, Office Depot, Blue Bottle burnt umber and a local grocery store and toy store. During the signup process, dominance shoppers were asked where they intend to have their goods delivered and what smartphone platform they use. That indicates Google has plans for at least an Android app and potenti altogethery a mobile site for iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.
But Google’s foray into the delivery field is a bit odd. The family doesn’t have Amazon’s long accounting of delivering goods. Even eBay with it’s eBay Now app has more experience acquiring people what they want in a timely fashion. Google’s retail experience has until now consisted largely of apps and a some Android devices.
Of course, you can’t complain too a good deal when you’re getting six months of free delivery if accepted into the pilot program. Let’s just hope all these same-day delivery services fare better than their spiritual forefather, the luckless victim of the first internet bubble, Kozmo.
Materials taken from WIRED
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