Amazon Dash Buttons...

[K Frame]

Just now saw these.

It's a Wi-Fi, product specific button that you buy for 4.99, and you press it to order that item. The first time you use it, you get 4.99 credit on the price of that item.

I'm not sure whether the concept is brilliant, or just nuts, but I'm half tempted to get one for Maxwell House coffee, which is what I use at home...

There's only about a dozen out right now.

[AJ Dual]

Amazon does not sell ammo.

[lupinus]

Saw these a little while ago.

Actually an interesting idea, particularly if you already order household items on Amazon. Iirc they have multi button ones as well to serve an area instead of a single item.


Sent from my iPhone. Freaking autocorrect.

[just Warren]

Keep them out of the reach of children!

"Who ordered 16 cases of Tide?"

Wal-Mart should do this coupled to a delivery service. Most people are within two-hours of a Wal-Mart (they've seen to that, the evil capitalistic bastards).  For some areas it would only make sense if there were a lot of orders going that way to send a delivery van so it might be a day or two but I'm ten minutes away from one and live in an urban-ish area so there should be enough orders to send out a van that same day or even within hours.

Of course Amazon is looking to put mini-fulfillment centers everywhere to be able to do that themselves. Wal-Mart won't like the competition. Whatever. Dance for my money, business monkeys! Dance!

[Perd Hapley]

They talked about doing this a while ago, but I seem to recall it actually sent a notification to your phone, and you made the transaction there. Either way, a brilliant move for them.

[AJ Dual]

They talked about doing this a while ago, but I seem to recall it actually sent a notification to your phone, and you made the transaction there. Either way, a brilliant move for them.

The order only goes through automatically if the last Dash delivery on the pre-agreed subscription size of TP, soap, or whatever, reached your house first. Dash button presses are ignored otherwise. I don't think you have to actively do anything to approve the transaction, but you do get notifications and can cancel them if need be. 

So if a little kid hammers on the Dash button, the worst that happens is a delivery of one shipment of the item you signed up for, and if you don't have one in transit, you can cancel or pause it from your Amazon account.

[K Frame]

These are apparently only for people who are signed up with Prime.

[MechAg94]

I guess you have to wait for delivery.  I was imagining keeping the TP button in the bathroom and then having the Amazon drone swing buy and drop it down a delivery chute.   

[MechAg94]

20 Yeas from now:  "When we were kids, we actually had to shop on the internet.  We didn't have these new fangled buttons!   

[MechAg94]

Another thought:  We seem to be getting closer to the ACME delivery service that Wile E. Coyote got on Looney Toons.  Just need Amazon's drone delivery to be same day. 

[K Frame]

In 20 years it will be Dash mind implants...

[AJ Dual]

In 20 years it will be Dash mind implants...

Well, for whatever your 3D printer can't print, and your GMO Yeast brewer can't distill for you right at home... opiates, vitamins...

[KD5NRH]

Actually, what WalMart could do to compete would be simple; smartphone app with the entire WalMart.com catalog plus all regular stock items at your local store, where you can set up a screen of your most common items, preferably by scanning bar codes.  You run low on toilet paper, open the app, click your TP.  Same for other items.  When you're headed to WalMart anyway, click an order button, to have the items pulled, paid for and held at the layaway/site-to-store desk for you within an hour.  Using a code or NFC signal from your phone, or just a RFID tag on your keychain, you walk up, ID yourself at the kiosk, and your purchases are brought out for you already bagged.  Premium service could be a drive up window or covered bay where cars can queue to be loaded.

[TechMan]

Actually, what WalMart could do to compete would be simple; smartphone app with the entire WalMart.com catalog plus all regular stock items at your local store, where you can set up a screen of your most common items, preferably by scanning bar codes.  You run low on toilet paper, open the app, click your TP.  Same for other items.  When you're headed to WalMart anyway, click an order button, to have the items pulled, paid for and held at the layaway/site-to-store desk for you within an hour.  Using a code or NFC signal from your phone, or just a RFID tag on your keychain, you walk up, ID yourself at the kiosk, and your purchases are brought out for you already bagged.  Premium service could be a drive up window or covered bay where cars can queue to be loaded.

We have the similar type of service at Kroger now, with some caveats.  You need to reserve a pick up time which is usually not the same day.  Kroger only has it working through a web browser, no phone/tablet apps.  We do pull up to a call box, during the 1 hour pickup window, and announce ourselves  and they will come out and swipe your card, bring out your order and load it into your car.  They will not accept payment at the time you place the order, so if you miss your pickup time all of your order will be placed back on the shelves, so they don't have to worry about hanging onto product that could potential spoil just sitting there for the person to come pick it up.

[KD5NRH]

We have the similar type of service at Kroger now, with some caveats.  You need to reserve a pick up time which is usually not the same day.  Kroger only has it working through a web browser, no phone/tablet apps.  We do pull up to a call box, during the 1 hour pickup window, and announce ourselves  and they will come out and swipe your card, bring out your order and load it into your car.  They will not accept payment at the time you place the order, so if you miss your pickup time all of your order will be placed back on the shelves, so they don't have to worry about hanging onto product that could potential spoil just sitting there for the person to come pick it up.

IMO, the phone app would be a major selling point, since you could set up your order while stuck in a waiting room where you generally remember that you want chicken for dinner and don't have any, or on the toilet where you usually notice that you're low on paper.  As for prepay/prepick, my concept would be more of a same-day thing, and mostly geared toward shelf-storables, but with, say, 30 days on non-perishables, (refunded minus a restock fee) and 48 hours on perishables (put coolers in the hold area) with no refund.  If the product is paid for, and not really bad, a clearance cooler for unclaimed perishables is just free money.

[just Warren]

Amazon ups the ante.

This shouldn't be too difficult to copy, especially for a company with the resources of Wal-Mart.

[MikeB]

When will they have one for Beer? With the 30 min drone delivery!!!!!

[K Frame]

Amazon ups the ante.

This shouldn't be too difficult to copy, especially for a company with the resources of Wal-Mart.

Uhm... are they SURE that new Flex thing isn't drone delivery?