{"id":14713,"date":"2015-09-01T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T13:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14713"},"modified":"2015-09-01T08:53:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T13:53:35","slug":"brian-j-s-amazon-prime-prediction-begins-to-bear-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/brian-j-s-amazon-prime-prediction-begins-to-bear-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian J.&#8217;s Amazon Prime Prediction Begins To Bear Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can one&#8217;s predictions bear fruit, or does one need to mix it with a different metaphor?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/28\/the-benefit-to-you-is-it-costs-you-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">I said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s a bold prediction you\u2019ll find everywhere else: Amazon Prime will evolve out of its actual benefit of offering free shipping on Amazon purchases to merely streaming content and giving its members exclusive access to a box that you can see filling up as you add items to your shopping cart. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Less than a year later, <a href=\"money.cnn.com\/2015\/09\/01\/technology\/amazon-prime-ship-by-region\/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom\" target=\"_blank\">we find<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Depending on where you live, you may no longer be able to receive certain items with free two-day shipping from Amazon &#8212; even if you&#8217;re a Prime member.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is testing a new program called Ship by Region, which will allow merchants to choose how far their items will ship with Amazon Prime, the company&#8217;s option for free two-day shipping. For example, a big screen TV warehoused in California might be available for Prime shipping in the Southwest but not in the Northeast. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Step 1: Complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can one&#8217;s predictions bear fruit, or does one need to mix it with a different metaphor? Anyway, I said: Here\u2019s a bold prediction you\u2019ll find everywhere else: Amazon Prime will evolve out of its actual benefit of offering free shipping on Amazon purchases to merely streaming content and giving its members exclusive access to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14714,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions\/14714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}