Amazon wants to be everything to everyone

Amazon wants to be everything to everyone

Amazon is expanding its e-commerce reach and integrating more deeply into daily lives. This includes faster delivery, robotic advancements, virtual healthcare, and personalized AI tools. They aim to offer rapid prescriptions delivery and will open an automated micro warehouse next year. These efforts aim to make shopping more efficient and convenient for customers.

Amazon is bolstering its e-commerce empire while continuing a march deeper into people's lives, from robots to healthcare and entertainment.

Innovations unveiled in recent days by the Seattle-based tech titan included a delivery van computer system to shave time off deliveries by its speed-obsessed logistics network.

Amazon Stores boss Doug Herrington said that the technology enables vans to recognize stops and signal which packages to drop off.

"When we speed up deliveries, customers shop more," Herrington said.

"For 2024, we're going to have the fastest Prime delivery speeds around the world," he added, referring to Amazon's subscription service.