Google would plan to use a new service to develop that helps consumers to online purchases that are then on the same day can be delivered. Google wants, with the new retailplatform compete with Amazon Prime.
Amazon Prime offers customers in the United States for an amount of 79 dollars per year, the ability to products within two days of delivery, without extra costs per delivery and no minimum order size. Also have Amazon Prime customers the ability to unlimited movies and tv series streamed to get, and each month an e-book from the Amazon Store be borrowed.
With the guarantee for delivery on the same day if the order thinks Google Amazon Prime customers in los to weeks. Google is for the setting up of the new retailplatform according to The Wall Street Journal in conversation with, among others, Macy’s, Gap and OfficeMax. About forty percent of Googles revenue is retail related.
Google does not itself offer products, but links, according to Reuters, to the sites and pages of connected retailers. Also the delivery is likely to be outsourced. A first test with the service would be in the vicinity of San Francisco will take place and in connection with UPS. To the ‘same day delivery’ to ensure, would be the service first to determine whether a product is available locally.