{"id":163691,"date":"2023-05-11T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T21:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/amazon-offers-us-shoppers-10-to-pick-up-purchases-as-it-targets-delivery-costs"},"modified":"2023-05-11T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T21:24:18","slug":"amazon-offers-us-shoppers-10-to-pick-up-purchases-as-it-targets-delivery-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/amazon-offers-us-shoppers-10-to-pick-up-purchases-as-it-targets-delivery-costs","title":{"rendered":"Amazon offers US shoppers $10 to pick up purchases as it targets delivery costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-offers-us-shoppers-10-to-pick-up-purchases-as-it-targets-delivery-costs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES, May 8 (Reuters) \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a> <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/AMZN.O\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">(AMZN.O)<\/a> is offering U.S. customers $10 to pick up a purchase rather than have it shipped to a home address, as the e-commerce giant joins other retailers in racing to slash costs for home delivery and returns amid slack consumer demand.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said the promotion is not a cost-cutting measure and that it applies to customers who have never used Amazon Pickup or have not used that service in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe offer customers a variety of ways to get their packages, inclusive of delivery and pickup options. The $10 Amazon Pickup promotion isn\u2019t new,\u201d the company said in a statement. Amazon did not say for how long this or similar pickup promotions have been in use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, May 8 (Reuters) \u2014 Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is offering U.S. customers $10 to pick up a purchase rather than have it shipped to a home address, as the e-commerce giant joins other retailers in racing to slash costs for home delivery and returns amid slack consumer demand. Amazon said the promotion is not a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}